Toshiba SSDs

[trippwojohn]

Hi there--

TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY'S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE and NEXT- GENERATION SSD FAMILY USING 43nm MLC NAND

Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba) and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, its subsidiary in the Americas, today announced the expansion of their line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte (GB)1 SSD and a broad family of fast read/write SSDs based on 43 nanometer (nm) Multi-Level Cell NAND. The new drives provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, gaming and home entertainment systems, and will be showcased at International CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8 – 11, 2009.

In addition to the 2.5-inch, 512GB drive, the 43nm NAND SSD family also includes capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules. Samples of the new drives will be available in the first quarter (January to March) of 2009, with mass production in the second (April to June) quarter.

Toshiba's second-generation SSDs bring increased capacity and performance for notebook computers. They utilize an advanced MLC controller, which is also compatible with further advanced processes, that achieves higher read/write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling to optimize performance, reliability and endurance. The drives enable improved system responsiveness with a maximum sequential read speed of 240MB per second (MBps)2 and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps enabling an improvement in overall computing experience, and faster boot and application loading times. The drives also offer AES data encryption to prevent unauthorized data access.

http://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/pre...emy_08_550.jsp

I came across a piece while hunting for the ever-faster hard drive, and found it quite surprising. Toshiba is now manufacturing 512GB SSDs (solid state drives) with "a maximum sequential read speed of 240MB per second (MBps)2 and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps", according to the Toshiba web site. This will result in MUCH faster data access time, and perhaps even a revolution in gaming!

[anon]

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[Samanoske]

Where the heck did you find this thing, mate? During casual shopping? I've yet to see an SSD being sold on the retail market to date, at least not individually, maybe it's just me...