PhotoFast GMonster3 XV2 SATA III 6Gbps SSD Announced
PhotoFast today revealed its new line up of SATA 6.0 Gbps SSDs. The company claims these new SSDs use a controller from a new company Japan that they have been working with since early 2009 in order to bring this SATA III SSD to market. The PhotoFast GMonster3 XV2 is rated internally to offer sequential performance up to 500MB/s Read and 400MB/s Write. These aren’t bad speeds, but we’d love to know what controller and type of MLC NAND Flash is being used. We reached out to PhotoFast to see what controller is being used, but they have yet to respond.
PhotoFast GMonster3 XV2 SSD Features
- Sequential Performance up to 500MB/s Read and 400MB/s Write.
- Available in 64GB / 128GB / 256GB / 512GB Capacities.
- MLC NAND Flash Supported.
- Uses The SATA III 6.0 Gbps Host Bus Interface.
- No performance degrades on incompressible data.
SATA 6.0 Gbps SSD has been available on the market for months, with the
performance just above SATA 3.0 Gbps bottleneck. Now we have pushed the new
drive over the limit, closer to the theoretically 500MB/s. At the final version
shipping firmware, improved NCQ command support would obvious be on QD32.
The new GMonster3 XV2 isnt aimed for just enthusiast but also consumers. When
SATA 6.0 Gbps motherboards are ready, they deserve something to pair up. The
beauty of the drive is that its sequential
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