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Arriving as a little slice of competition for data drive heavyweights Seagate and Western Digital (WD) to worry about, solid-state drive (SSD) specialist pureSilicon has whipped the covers off its new 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch Renegade R2 line, which offers up as much as 256GBs of safe and secure SSD storage.
Safe and sturdy solid-state storage. Image: pureSilicon.
Described as delivering “uncompromised performance in the harshest conditions” thanks to its “ruggedized” hard-wearing design and construction, the Renegade R2 series arrives boasting a sequential read speed of 255MB/s and a sequential write speed of 180MB/s, along with improved random read IOPS of 18,000 @ 4K and random write IOPS of 1,200 @ 4K.
Protected by pureSilicon’s SiPher data security technology and available in storage sizes of 4GBs, 8GBs, 16GBs, 32GBs, 64GBs, 128GBs, the Renegade R2 line is supported by SATA II and has a low profile height of 9.5mm.
Sitting slightly apart from the rest of the SSD family, the 256GB Renegade R2 supports PATA and is an even more svelte platform thanks to its 1.8-inch form factor.
Targeted at professionals within the defence, military, industrial and governmental sectors, the sturdy Renegade R2 drives are indicative of pureSilicon’s commitment “to designing and delivering technologies that will provide significant benefits” to its customers through full-disk encryption and data declassification methods.
Other contributing features and functions likely to help loosen purse strings in enterprise circles include Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART), Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), and other advanced SATA commands.
All-but pureSilicon’s more oomph-worthy 256GB solid-state drive solution are available immediately, with the 256GB variant expected to begin shipping during the first quarter of 2010. Pricing has not been confirmed.
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