Bitmicro has created a 461GB Solid State Disk Drive. The E-Disk Altima flash drives are standard 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA), and are engineered to be very reliable. They can operate in temperatures of -40 to +85 degrees Celsius, and withstand substantial shock. Based on current flash memory prices, these things are going to be pretty pricey and will be built specifically for industrial and military applications. The 461GB Bitmicro E-Disk Altima is said to be available March of 2008. [via]

LinuxDevices.com:

• Performance:
  • Access time — 30 to 100 microseconds
  • Burst transfer rate — 300 MB/sec.
  • Sustained transfer rate — up to 100 MB/sec.
  • I/O operations per second — Up to 20,000
• Environmental specifications:
  • Operating temperature 0-70 degrees C (“commercial” range), -40 to +85 degrees C (“industrial” range)
  • Shock (operating) — 1,250 G
  • Vibration (operating) — 16.4 G rms
• Reliability:
  • MTBF — 1.9 million hours, minimum
  • Error correction — corrects up to 9 random bit errors per 528-byte block
  • Data integrity — up to ten years
  • Read endurance — unlimited
• Physical specifications:
  • Form-factor — 2.5-inch HDD
  • Dimensions — 2.75 x 3.95 x 0.93 inches (69.85 x 100.45 x 23.55 mm) maximum, storage capacities 64 GB and below are 0.33 inches thick
  • Weight — 2.9 to 7.8 ounces (83 to 221 grams)

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