News - G.Skill TITAN 256GB 2.5-inch MLC Solid State Disk
G.Skill TITAN 256GB 2.5-inch MLC Solid State Disk
The SSD market is on fire, burning faster than even
the most optimistic analysts could have predicted. G.Skill has played a large
role in the solid state transition with their above average products at below
average costs. Not only that, but we are really starting to see SSDs become
user friendly as far as capacity goes. Last year we were talking about 32GB
SSDs and how the speed was very impressive, but the capacity left room for
doubt. Here we are a year later and we are already seeing close to a 10x
increase in capacity for drives costing the same as the 32GB drives last year.
In G.Skill’s latest SSD, capacity will have to just be
a footnote in the overall scheme of things. The real story sits with the
technology and what the company was able to do with JMicron’s somewhat
problematic controller. In essence, G.Skill was able to use two JMicron
controllers with two separate banks of memory that work in tandem to reduce or
eliminate the issues associated with writing multiple small files to the drive.
I have seen the term RAID used a few times in other reviews and while the
concept seems similar, it is not the case. @ TweakTown
