SanDisk Corp., a leading provider of flash memory solutions, yesterday unveiled their G3 series SSD, complete with ATA TRIM support and an unprecedented 10-year warranty.
“SanDisk believes in an uncompromising development approach which insists that an SSD’s long term reliability and durability are just as important as its overall speed,” said Eric Bone, VP of Retail Product Marketing at SanDisk. “We’re leveraging our long history of flash memory and retail expertise to bring the SanDisk G3 SSD to market.”
Boasting peak speeds of 220/120MBps read/write, the SanDisk G3 series will arrive in 120GB and 60GB flavors for $399.99 and $299.99, respectively. While the burst speeds are average, the drive’s durability and warranty are not. SanDisk claims that a new controller enables the G3 to withstand at least 80TB of writes, or at least 50 years under “typical usage scenarios.” If that doesn’t pan out, the company has also tacked on a completely unheard of ten year warranty for the drives. That warranty is longer than the lifetime of most mechanical disks.
The new controller, says SanDisk, also features a proprietary technology the company has dubbed ExtremeFFS. SanDisk claims that the new algorithm enables the G3 series to perform random writes up to 100 times faster than SSDs with more “conventional algorithms.”
Bold claims such as these will have to be tested, but it is nevertheless exciting to see an SSD maker come out swinging with such an evidently robust product on its first go.
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