SSD breakthrough makes drives 300 per cent faster and 60 per cent more power efficient

Anyone who knows me knows I love my SSD. It should be standard on computers. Now we have word that a breakthrough in solid state drive processing means current drives can be boosted 300 percent faster with 60 percent better energy efficiency.

Even better, it may be possible your current drive can be updated via software. A Japanese research team at Chuo University has found a way to fix the problem with drives not being able to overwrite data in the same memory area, essentially causing fragmented data and more power useage.

The team has overcome the issue by changing the middleware that controls storage for database applications. The new method uses a "logical block address scrambler" which basically stops data being written to a new page and places it in a block to be erased in the next sweep. That means fewer pages, less copying and ultimately a better drive.



Now this proposal has to go to drive manufacturers to see if it is accepted, which we would imagine it will be.