Monster Digital company decided to try the SSD market. The SSD series is called Le Mans and use SandForce controller. The claimed read and write speeds are 550 and 515 MB / sec. Devices are equipped with SATA 6 Gb / sec interface.
From the first quarter 2012, will be available four models - 80, 120, 240 and 400 GB volume. The difference between them, in addition to volume, and is in how much memory is reserved for high reliability. The models with 120 GB and 240 - 7%, and the model 400 GB - 28%.
Redundancy is used to increase the life of drive that uses flash memory such as NAND. In addition, redundancy allows to maintain a high performance level without using TRIM, for example, RAID arrays .