PureSilicon was discovered last January, when she unveiled the first flash disk with a capacity then record 1 terabyte. The American firm is poised to launch a new SSD, the Renegade R2. It will be available in two sizes, 2.5 and 1.8 inch (es).

The range is very wide, with capacities of 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 GB SLC flash memory. This is engraved in 34 nanometers, probably by Micron. The controller used is unfortunately not specified.

Interfaces SATA and PATA-300-133 are proposed by pureSilicon. The rates announced (for the Serial ATA model obviously) are 255 MB / s sequential read and 180MB / s write, always sequential. The U.S. manufacturer announces 18 000 IOPS in random 4 KB (about 72 MB / s) and 1200 IOPS (about 4.8 Mb / s) random write 4 KB

The casing of the DSS is classic in its dimensions, with a height of 9.5 millimeters, but hides a few surprises. It indeed bear extreme weather conditions (-40 ° C to +85 ° C) but also many shocks and vibrations. It follows military standards including MIL-STD-810F.

A hardware-based encryption of data, AES 256-bit, is also present. The disc can then be locked and unlocked several ways (pin codes, TPM, smart card ... etc..). Without the right "key", the information contained on the disc is unreadable.

The pureSilicon Renegade R2 version 2.5 ", SATA, 4 to 128 GB available on Wednesday. For other references, it was not until the first quarter of 2010.

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