One of the coolest things on the internet is probably that hardly anything goes unnoticed. What happens if a company puts an exotic SSD in an Ultrabook? Someone will tear the Ultrabook apart and investigate it. This is exactly what the guys from TheSSDReview.com have done. When they were reviewing an Acer S7 Ultrabook they found a Lite-On mSATA SSD card inside.
This SSD seems to be a combination of two 128 GB disks with two controllers. When the guys took a closer look at the mSATA card they saw two 24 nm Toshiba Toggle NAND modules, some Nanya DRAM cache memory, a Marvel 88S9175 SATA-3 controller and a Winbond I/O controller on each side of the card and although the card is pretty much two SSDs components wise, it plugs in like a normal mSATA SSD.
But the most interesting part of the drive is its performance. In CrystalDiskMark the drive shows an incredible 877.6 MB/s sequential read and 672.8 MB/s sequential write speed.
When it comes to 512k read the drive is able to read at 599,7 MB/s and write at 630.5 MB/s (more here). While that's fast, it doesnt beat two 256 GB OCZ Vertex drives in RAID 0 as posted by our forum member JReynolds.
