Eurocom now offers notebooks with mSATA drives

Eurocom Corporation (www.eurocom.com), a developer of long lifespan, high performance, fully upgradable Notebooks and Mobile Workstations has been testing, benchmarking (below) and is now adding several choices of mSATA drives to its high performance notebooks computers.

The mSATA drives offered in the EUROCOM Neptune 2.0 and Racer 2.0 allow for enhanced configuration options, increased storage capacity, caching and upgrade capability. Another very important feature of an mSATA drive is the ability to use the mSATA SSD as a boot drive for speed alongside a large capacity hard drive.

“The addition of the mSATA drive to our lineup of configuration options opens the door for our customers to do even more with our Notebooks and Mobile Workstations” explains Mark Bialic, Eurocom President “Increased storage capacity, caching and boot drive capability are just the start of what it offers our clients. Existing customer can also easily upgrade their current systems with mSATA drives from Eurocom as well.”

With the combination of an mSATA SSD and a Hard Drive users can take advantage of the supported Intel Smart Response Technology to speed up application loading, system boot times and frequently accessed software. This is done by intelligently learning or loading what customers use the most to a high performance Solid State drive for fast access and loading.

mSATA Solid State Drives have several benefits over traditional storage mediums, mainly, energy consumption, small size, fast read write speeds and caching capability.

Eurocom offers mSATA choices from 20GB to 256 GB, MLC to SLC, SATA III (6 GB/s) and SATA II (3 GB/s) to ensure Eurocom customers have the perfect tool for the job. Eurocom currently offers the following mSATA storage options in Eurocom systems as well as upgrade options to existing customers:

20GB mSATA SSD; SLC; Intel 313 Series; 3Gb/s; 25nm; Hawley Creek SSDMAEXC020G301

24GB mSATA SSD; SLC; Intel 313 Series; 3Gb/s; 25nm; Hawley Creek SSDMAEXC024G301

40GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Intel 310 Series; 3Gb/s; SSDMAEMC040G2C1

80GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Intel 310 Series; 3Gb/s; SSDMAEMC080G2C1

128GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Micron/Crucial C400; SATA3 (6Gb/s); 25nm

256GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Micron/Crucial C400; SATA3 (6Gb/s); 25nm

Eurocom technicians have been testing the testing a variety of storage options in the EUROCOM Racer 2.0, the full complement of test results can be found here: http://web.eurocom.com/ec/ec_GetBenchmarkB(24)

Eurocom notebooks supporting mSATA storage:

EUROCOM Neptune 2.0
-17.3” 1920x1080 Matte or Glossy display
-Graphics support for:
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M, 675M, 670M, 660M
• NVIDIA Quadro support 5010M, 4000M, 3000M
• AMD Radeon HD 7970M
-Processor: Full line of Intel IVY Bridge Processors. Up to Intel Core i7-3920XM
-Storage: Up to 3 storage drives (HDD, SSD, Hybrid) and mSATA. RAID 0/1/5 support

EUROCOM Racer 2.0
-15.6” 1920x1080 Matte or Glossy display
-Graphics support for:
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M, 675M, 670M, 660M
• NVIDIA Quadro 5010M, 4000M, 3000M
• AMD Radeon HD 7970M
-Processor: Full line of Intel IVY Bridge Processors. Up to Intel Core i7-3920XM
-Storage: Up to 2 storage drives (HDD, SSD, Hybrid) and mSATA. RAID 0/1/5 support

Internal mSATA SSD options from Eurocom

20GB mSATA SSD; SLC; Intel 313 Series; 3Gb/s; 25nm; Hawley Creek SSDMAEXC020G301

24GB mSATA SSD; SLC; Intel 313 Series; 3Gb/s; 25nm; Hawley Creek SSDMAEXC024G301

40GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Intel 310 Series; 3Gb/s; SSDMAEMC040G2C1

80GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Intel 310 Series; 3Gb/s; SSDMAEMC080G2C1

128GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Micron/Crucial C400; SATA3 (6Gb/s); 25nm

256GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Micron/Crucial C400; SATA3 (6Gb/s); 25nm

256GB Crucial m4 mSATA 6Gb/s SSD Specs:

Capacity (Unformatted) 256GB

Memory Type Micron MLC NAND Flash memory

Form Factor mSATA

Interface SATA 6Gb/s (SATA III)

Controller Marvell with Micron Custom Firmware

Sequential Read 500MB/s

Sequential Write 260MB/s

4KB Random Read 45,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write 50,000 IOPS

MTBF 1.2 million hours

Endurance 72TB Total Bytes Written (TBW), equal to 40GB per day for 5 years

80GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Intel 310 Series Specs:

Capacity (Unformatted) 80GB

Memory Type Intel NAND Flash Memory Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Technology

Form Factor mSATA

Interface SATA 3GB/s

Sequential Read 200 MB/s

Sequential Write 70 MB/s

Random Read (8GB Span) 35000 IOPS

Random Write (8GB Span) 6600 IOPS

MTBF 1,200,00 hours

Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER) 1 sector per 10^16

24GB mSATA SSD; SLC; Intel 313 Series Specs:

Capacity (Unformatted) 24GB

Memory Type Intel NAND Flash Memory Single-Level Cell (SLC) Technolog

Form Factor mSATA

Interface SATA 3GB/s

Sequential Read 160 MB/s

Sequential Write 115 MB/s

Random Read (8GB Span) 33000 IOPS

Random Write (8GB Span) 4000 IOPS

MTBF 1,200,00 hours

Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER) 1 sector per 10^16