Solid State Disk New Trick: Upgradable with Four Daughter Cards

Solid-state hard disk products are more and more, and we do not want to fall into homogeneity and we must introduce new products. An emerging Angelbird (Angel Bird) in the UK released an alternative SSD "Wings" (Wings) today. Four expansion ports are reserved and up to four daughter cards "Crest" (crown) can be hung up. Increasing capacity and performance also greatly increase product flexibility.

Wings itself is a PCI-E x4 system bus interface solid state hard disk card, using SandForce SF-1200 host controller and Intel MLC NAND flash memory chip, capacity 16GB, 32GB, both sides are reserved for two interfaces to meet Crest. The Crest daughter card is also equipped with a SandForce master controller, which has a single-bank capacity of 120GB and can be freely attached to one, two, three, or four blocks.

Angelbird claimed that when carrying an expansion card, the continuous reading and writing speeds were 285MB/s and 275MB/s, respectively, and the two went up to 560MB/s and 520MB/s, and the three speeds up to 790/740MB/s. Up to astonishing 1081MB/s, 945MB/s, so only use the PCI-E x4 bus.

Interestingly, there is a mini USB 2.0 interface on Wings that users can choose to transfer through.

In addition, Wings and Crest can be connected to existing 2.5-inch SSDs or mechanical hard drives through the included adapters.

Wings has a built-in management system called "Virtue". It supports booting and configuration on Windows PC and Mac OS X. It can also use operating systems or software tools to build RAID arrays. The firmware upgrade is also very similar. simple. It also provides a separate partition for the first time, which can be used to store system ISO backup images or other drivers for restore and recovery.

Wings and Crest have all been put into production and will be listed one after another. Pricing starts at $239.99 for Wings, and $539.99, $839.99, and $1399.99 for a bundled set of two, four, and four Crest daughter cards.

Incidentally, Angelbird is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with marketing and sales operations in the United States, and R&D offices in the Netherlands and China.