SanDisk claims new SSDs will dramatically increase speed, endurance

By Eric Lai

November 6, 2008 12:00 PM ET

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While LDE is like the tire's rated number of miles, this would be like "taking a coin to see how much tread is actually left on the tire," Barnetson said.

It would be similar to the SMART spec used by conventional hard drives to measure the health of spinning hard drives, Barnetson said. SMART has been criticized as unreliable because it cannot predict when a drive might suddenly fail because of mechanical problems or shock. But since SSDs are known to be less vulnerable to such types of failures, this specification would be far more accurate, he said. And it could be helpful for IT managers who have thus far been reluctant to replace spinning drives with SSDs because of failure fears, he said.

SanDisk is proposing this specification to the T13 technical standards committee, Barnetson said.

Stephen Weinger, marketing manager for NAND flash products at rival Samsung Electronics Inc., declined to comment on SanDisk's proposals.

Samsung last month pulled its unsolicited $5.85 billion offer to buy SanDisk, citing a lack of progress and worsening business conditions.

Read more about storage in Computerworld's Storage Knowledge Center.

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