But it`s not for the likes of you and me, yet

By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 13 September 2005, 15:15

BITMICRO showed off a 155GB Ultra 320 SCSI solid state hard drive at a military show here in London.

The E-Disk 3S320 will operate at temperatures between -60° Celsius to over 95° Celsius, said the company.

The 3.5-inch drive comes with either a half pitch DB68 or a SCA-2 ANSI compliant connector, and has access times of 42 microsecond, read-write rate of 44MB/s maximum and burst RW rate of 320MB/sec maximum.

Operating systems supported include Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS, LynxOS, AIX, FreeBSD, HP/UX. IRIX, NetBSD, OS/2, QNX, VxWorks, Unixware, Solaris X86 and Tru64.

The military class drive is suitable for scientific missions and reconnaissance flights, and no doubt it carries a hefty price tag. But it does show the shape of things to come, if Samsung and others have their way.