SanDisk announced the development of a new flash memory file system for SSDs which will significantly accelerate the write speeds. The new technology is called ExtremeFFS and it should be available in the company’s products scheduled for shipment next year.

The official presentation took place two days ago at the WinHEC Conference in Los Angeles and was conducted by Mr. Rich Heye, senior VP and general manager for SanDisk's SSD Business Unit. He explained that the technological progress is bigger than ever and next year’s SSDs will be at least four times faster than today’s generation and also almost six times faster than the latest 2.5 inch hard drives.

Don Barnetson, senior director of marketing at the Milpitas, Calif.-based memory maker's SSD business unit, explained that the ExtremeFFS will boost the speed of writing common types of data to SSDs by close to 100 times and will also allow to write data to disk without the need to erase and rewrite nearby stored data.

The presentation also included two metrics for evaluating SSDs, as the company is looking to offer its clients better evaluation tools. Virtual RPM, or vRPM, will be used for comparing performance between an SSD and a HDD or another SSD, and LDE or long-term data endurance, will be used for calculating the lifespan of a SSD.

The introduction of SSDs was received with great enthusiasm as there are certain important benefits when compared to the mechanical spinning hard drives, such as the production of less heat, the usage of less power and also their longer life expectancy.