Novachips announced two new high capacity products that include the world's first 8 TB 2.5" SSD to hit the market. Both the Scalar-Series (SATA 6 Gbps) and Express-Series (PCIe NVMe) use Novachip's NVS3800 series SSD controller built on the 28nm process to lower power consumption.
The NVS3800 connects to host systems via SATA or PCIe 2.0 x4 with the NVMe 1.1a protocol. The company tells us that with ONFi and Toggle NAND the controller supports up to 1 TB of capacity, but with Hyperlink NAND (HLNAND), the density can increase as high as 16 TB. The company is currently sampling 4 TB and 8 TB products to customers. In January 2015, Novachips purchased 260 HLNAND patents from Conversant.
"HLNAND Flash memory technology is based upon a unique point-to-point ring architecture that outpaces the parallel bus architecture used in most industry standard NAND Flash products. An HLSSD (HyperLink SSD) with a HyperLink interface utilizes a serial, point-to-point, daisy-chain topology to connect up to 255 memory devices in a single memory channel, called a 'Ring'," Novachips said. "Because each HLNAND device is only connected to the next device in the Ring, it is driving just one load. Therefore, maximum operational speed is maintained regardless of the number of devices populated in the Ring." - TomsITPro
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