It is known that solid-state disk use only a certain part of physically accessible memory - rest is found in the reserve in case of malfunctioned cell substitution. Depending on producer, the capacity of reserve storage can reach 25-27% of initial volume. As a rule, the portion of reserve is above in SSD, oriented to the corporate market segment.
According to associate, soon OCZ Technology will release the micro-code update for SSD series vertex 2 and Agility 2, which use sandForce controllers, which will decrease the reserved region volume from 27,2% to 12,6%. This will allow to increase by 20% the volume of disk space, accessible to user. For example, SSD with 50 Gb volume will obtain as bonus 10 Gb of space, and SSD with 200 Gb volume will get up to 240 Gb. Unfortunately, OCZ will release the corresponding SSD micro-code update only in two months. Related Products :
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