Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
This website details the design of a solid state hard drive (SSHD). The SSHD will be designed with off-the-shelf components to reduce development time and costs. The goal is to have a low latency and access time coupled with high throughput which is afforded by having RAM being the primary storage medium. The design will make attempts to maintain a low latency by using as few chips as possible. The major difference between this design and existing products is the use of off-the-shelf memory modules which are readily available to consumers and allow for various capacities depending on how the end user decides to equip the device. This will lower the cost of the actual product to consumers, while having many of the benefits of the more expensive SSHD designs which use proprietary memory and are not expandable. The device will connect to the host computer via a standard storage interconnect such as SCSI and will offer a seamless install as to appear as a regular drive.