SSDs just got much larger: Toshiba to Unveil 512GB Solid State Drive
By Jenny • Dec 19th, 2008 • Category: Mobile Computing Accessory NewsSolid State Drives or SSDs are creating a buzz in the mobile computing market these days. Because of the reliability and performance offered by these storage drives they were expected to replace standard hard disks. However this has not happened completely because of two major reasons. The first is that SSDs are very costly and other reason is that they only offer a maximum storage capacity of up 256GB, but most offer far less, like the Transcend ExpressCard/34 SSD SLC 32GB. On the other hand, the legacy HDDs are cheaper and offer more than 500GB of storage capacity, thereby preventing SSDs from taking over completely.
However, the gap in the storage capacity has been bridged by Toshiba. The company is going to unveil its new SSD which will offer half a terabyte of storage, i.e. 512GB at the Consumer Electronics Show to be held at Las Vegas next month. Toshiba has made this drive using its 43-nanometer Multi-Level Cell NAND flash technology. The drive is capable of offering sequential read speed of 240MB per second and a data write speed up to 200MB per second. The company has not announced the cost of the SSD yet. So it’s not known whether the drive will come with an affordable price tag or if, like the other SSDs, it will also charge the end users heavily in return for such a massive storage capacity. The drive is expected to hit the consumer markets in the second quarter of 2009.
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