Anobit Adds Enterprise-grade Performance to MLC-based SSDs

Posted 06/16/2010 at 3:06am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Israeli startup Anobit has announced its debut product – the Genesis range of solid-state drives (SSD). It has managed to draw our attention to its SSDs because of some very lofty claims. Genesis SSDs are essentially multilevel cell (MLC) SSDs with uncharacteristically high endurance levels. According to  the company's  press release, Anobit's Memory Signal Processing (MSP) technology is what extends MLC endurance  levels to those usually associated with SLC-based SSDs.

It is said to improve endurance levels from around 3K read/write cycles to 50K cycles, representing an improvement by a factor of 20: “This guarantees drive write endurance of ten full disk writes per day, for five years, or 7,300 TBs for a 400 GB drive, with fully random data (worst-case conditions).”

Anobit promises this mammoth leap in reliability and performance at the usual price of MLC flash.“For too long, the high prices of SLC SSDs and concerns about MLC SSD endurance have slowed the adoption of flash memory storage in the enterprise. Anobit Genesis SSDs effectively neutralize both of these concerns,” said Prof. Ehud Weinstein, Anobit CEO. “By delivering true enterprise-class SSD reliability at affordable MLC SSD prices, Anobit Genesis SSDs unlock the full promise of solid-state enterprise storage.”

The SSDs are available in 200GB and 400GB capacities, and boast sustained read rates of up to 220 MB/s and sustained write rates of up to 180 MB/s.