Friday, February 18, 2011

OCZ goes to 25-nanometer NAND FLASH

OCZ is now shipping the new SSD solutions with 25-nanometer manufacturing process, replacing the SSD attuai to 34 nanometers, but leaving unchanged the neme of the devices, despite some problems resulting from the transition to the new production process. In essence, the new 25-nanometer NAND taken to the SSD, it is true that enable lower production costs and thus a lower price to the end user, but bring with them two drawbacks, at least for the moment.

In fact, the new memories have a shorter life than 34-nanometer, but OCZ has used a process known as over-provisioning, which devotes most GB equal to maintain this durability of SSDs, so as to solve the problem. Another disadvantage concerns the performance drop Asthe having made available forms of greater capacity at lower cost under the new stepping, the same ultimate capacity of the disk decreases the number of chips present, and consequently the extent of the bus arrives at the controller, limiting the number of bytes accessed in parallel.

OCZ, however, for those who wish launched a program to replace and pay the difference, the discs Vertex 2 to 25nm using 8 to 64 Gb NAND chip with the version that uses 16 to 32 Gb NAND chip.

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