Indilinx announced this week that it has completed the development of its new "Barefoot" solid state drive (SSD) controller. The Barefoot supports capacities up to 512GB with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash and with its native SATA 2.0 interface, it can reach read speeds of 230MB/s.

Indilinx, a fabless semiconductor company, announced today it has completed the development of IDX22 (Product Name: Barefoot™), its high-performing solid state drive (SSD) controller with 90nm process technology. Barefoot™ shows the fastest read speed 230MB/s of all the products currently available in the market and supports the capacity up to 512GB with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash...


..However, Barefoot™ from Indilinx gives a clear solution to the market by realizing phenomenal performance at a competitive price. It supports native SATA 2.0 (3Gbps) interface and provides maximum read and write speed of 230MB/s, 170MB/s with SLC NAND flash, and 200MB/s, 160MB/s with MLC NAND, respectively. It is obviously made possible by Indilinx’s unique architecture and technology, including independently operating 4 channels and external DRAM buffer. In addition, it enhances stability and reliability by using two types of hardware error-correcting code (ECC) of Reed-Solomon (RS) and Bose-Chadhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH).

Hopefully, the Barefoot also compensates for Vista's poor performance with SSDs. If you'd like to read more, Indilinx's entire press release can be found here.