August 4, 2014

HGST Research Demonstrates World's Fastest SSD at Flash Memory Summit



Technology Demonstration Highlights New HGST Architecture for Future Non-Volatile Memory Components, Enabling PCIe-attached SSD to Deliver Three Million I/Os per second and 1.5us Access Time

Enterprise storage leader HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today is previewing a new architecture for solid-state drives (SSDs) that enables applications to provide faster insights to the data-intensive questions of tomorrow. The demonstration shows unprecedented SSD performance levels that are achieved by utilizing a combination of HGST’s new, latency-optimized interface protocols with next-generation non-volatile memory components.