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Toshiba crowns itself king of the hill with a 512 GB SSD
Toshiba is firing the next salvo in the Solid State War with a drive that's an impressive 512 GB large. As it pretty much always is in the wild world of tech, that's double the size of the last SSD we got all gaga about. Toshiba will have SSDs ranging in sizes from 64 GB, 128 GB to 256 GB to show off at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, as well as its big 512 gigger — the last of which should go into full production later next year.
Even if you don't want to shell out the cash for a 512 GB solid state drive, the never-ceasing march of companies like Toshiba and Intel to create bigger and faster drives mean that the lesser-sized drives left in the wake will hit the shelves cheaper, and that's always a good thing.
Via PC World
By Ondego at 9:06 PM ON 12/19/08
I just shelled out $200,000 for the 256Gb SSD & it's aleady obsolete!
By foxelein at 10:53 PM ON 12/21/08
it is big than other,.. :) but what with the read/write speed about..? bigger than other..? any more description? thx,..
By lfbnumone at 11:00 AM ON 01/01/09
I've lost touch with these huge SSD devices. What's the technology? Probably not the 'bubble' memory I heard about some years back. And like the last comment - what's the access time & read/write life expectancy? I would anticipate SSD would not have any limitations - but usually new technology DOES have some problems - wonder what they are?
By nlinux at 12:40 PM ON 01/01/09
The missing vitals for Toshiba’s New SSD Drives:
Sizes 64 to 512 GB
Max Seq. Read 240 MB/s
Max Seq. Write 200 MB/s
Form Factor 2.5-inch
SSD Type MLC
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