PhotoFast Global Inc. a pioneer in creative, high quality and extreme performance flash-based storage manufacturer, today revealed its new line up of SATA 6.0 Gbps SSDs. Relied the new partner in Japan, a fresh new company in SSD controller industry, who has been working closely with us since early 2009. PhotoFast demand to bring a perfect balance of performance and cost.

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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 isn't 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 it's sequential

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MSRP:
64GB USD 110
128GB USD 200
256GB USD 400
512GB USD 800

Start shipping to Japan in April 2011.

Features:

  • Nearly 500MB/s, pushed to the bottleneck.
  • Great cost/performance ratio
  • No performance degrades on incompressible data.

Specifications:

  • Weight: 105g±15g
  • Dimensions: W 69.85mm x D 100.00mm x H 9.5mm
  • Host Bus Interface: SATA 6.0 Gbps
  • Capacity: 64GB / 128GB / 256GB / 512GB
  • Read Seq.: 500MB/s
  • Write Seq.: 450MB/s
  • Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ 70°C
  • Storage Temperature: -25°C ~ 85°C
  • Humidity: 0°C~55°C / 95% RH, 10cycles
  • Vibration: 20G Peak
  • Shock: 1500G