Indilinx Unveils Barefoot

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Indilinx unveils Barefoot, its solid state drive (SSD) controller with 90nm process technology. Barefoot shows the fastest read speed 230MB/s of all the products currently available in the market and supports the capacity up to 512GB with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash. Industry experts appreciate the introduction of Barefoot as a turning point to the times when high-performing SSD with bandwidth of over 200MB/s and random input-output (IO) of 20,000/s into various servers such as on-line transaction processing (OLTP) and a streaming server.

Also, Indilinx and MOSAID have co-presented their strategic cooperation in the development of high-performing SSD controller for the next generation DDR type flash memory. Despite the prevalence of SATA 2 interface, previous SSDs didn't fully utilize its speed specs. But Barefoot is virtually the first controller which fully utilizes SATA 2 interface, lagging HDD about 3 years behind technically. Even further, Indilinx, with MOSAID, is preparing for the 3rd generation of controller for SATA 3 interface, which will provide 600MB/s.

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