Taiwanese company InnoDisk, which specializes in the developments of flash drives, has just announced the release of new speedy SSD drive series – Matador II. These SSDs appears as PCI-Express extension card with capacity from 128 GB to 2 TB.
Matador II SSDs were developed for high-end gaming computers but it’s not the only application of new solid state drives. InnoDisk claims that technical characteristics of Matador SSD easily allow them to be used in servers and military systems. The key feature of new series would be excellent read/write speed as manufacturer promises (but we all know about their promises… :) Matador II is supposed to deliver data transfering speed for reading at 800 MB/s and for writing at 600 MB/s. That’s not a record, there’s other devices with great theoretical speed (like G-Monster Promise SSD with 1 GB/s speed), but that’s several times faster than today’s consumer HDD has. Of course with such a performance it’s likely Matador will be not only as fast as spaceship but also as expensive as the one.
InnoDisk plans to ship 1 million of Matador 2 SSD drives in next year, that’s really a lot for relatively small company. I don’t think they will be able to do it, but they can lower global SSD price by trying. Time will tell.
