Marvell announced mass market availability of its new 88SS9187 SATA controller that will find its way into SSDs for ultrabooks. The controller comes with a SATA 6Gb (Rev 3.1) interface and supports NAND flash data transfer rates of up to 200 MB/s per channel (up to eight channels are supported). Marvell boasts a sequential read performance of around 500MB/s even at dirty drive conditions. According to the manufacturer, the device also features “groundbreaking correction capability” based on an ECC engine with Adaptive Read and Write Scheme, as well as on-chip RAID support.
2DayBlog.com, Marvell unveils new SSD 6Gb/s SATA controller
