Enterprise storage capacity keeps growing up and performance of it is demanded to be faster. One key stimulation is cloud computing. It comes with an advantage for SSD booming up. In order to provide better solution to replace traditional HDD, there are numerous challenges for SSD venders to overcome.

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InnoDisk, as a leading industrial storage solution vendor, has just launched E-Class SSD Series, E-Class SAS SSD and E-Class SATA SSD. E-Class SSD is developed for enterprise computing application and is designed within eMLC (enterprise NAND flash). The most critical difference between eMLC, MLC and SLC is the program/erase cycle. SLC provides 100,000 cycles and MLC provides 3,000 to 5,000 cycles, while that of eMLC (or Enterprise MLC) can reach up to 30,000. 10 times better write endurance, but little higher price than MLC, this makes eMLC more attractive and more value-added.

E-Class SSD offers two interfaces, including SAS and SATA (II) .Positioning at enterprise class and eMLC-based SSD, E-Class provides cost-efficient write endurance and performance. However, why InnoDisk chooses SAS interface? Wider bandwidth, more connected devices, and also duplex supported, SAS is generally applied into enterprise applications. Also, SAS supports larger scalability, and it benefits that enterprise storage demands on huge data storage.

Especially, insight into SSD vendors in Taiwan, E-Class SAS SSD is meaningful and is a milestone for Taiwan SSD vendors. InnoDisk, though, just knocks the enterprise storage, but the company has the hesitation on this and will go further. The next step, InnoDisk will release E-Class within SLC models soon.