Biwin Announces Worlds First 10-Channel SATA III SSDs – NuvoDrive NX

We recently noticed that BIWIN Semiconductor, a company founded in China back in 1995, has released the companies Solid-State Drives (SSDs) to the North American retail market. The company has shipped over 100 million Flash storage devices since they opened, but do not have a large brand presence here in North America. The good news for BIWIN is that they have better channel partners and are now one of the 19 SSD companies that you get to pick from on Newegg.com. BINWIN America was opened in March 2012, so the brand now has offices and employees based right here in the United States. The company also hired Flash industry veteran Joe James as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and that is how we found out that they released the worlds first 10-channel 2.5-inch SATA III (6 Gbits/sec) SSD today, the enterprise class NuvoDrive NX.

The NuvoDrive NX drive is a product that BIWIN needs to ‘break out’ from the other companies as it uses the Novachips NVS3600A controller, which we are told is the Bugatti of all SSD controllers. Virtually all of the SATA III SSDs have 4- or 8-channel controllers, so with this controller you have more channels and that should translate to better transfer speeds between the controller and the MLC NAND Flash. The NuvoDrive NX also features a large 256MB DRAM cache to dramatically accelerate random write performance. We have been told that the NuvoDrive NX will deliver up to 80,000 4K random write IOPS for both compressible and incompressible data types. It supports sequential read and write speeds upwards of 520 MB/sec. The NuvoDrive NX SATA III SSD is an enterprise class SSD that will be available in 80GB, 160GB and 300GB capacities and is expected to be released in Q3 2012.