Toshiba to unveil 512GB SSDs
Ever since I bought my first netbook — an AUS EEE 701 — I have fallen madly in love with solid state drives (SSDs). These drives are hardier, so tough that my friends tell me stories of their own EEE’s accidentally being dropped on the floor while it’s running with nary an error. I think SSDs are the way to go for laptops and other portable devices because they are more prone to sudden jolts and accidental falls that will damage traditional disk-type drives. I’m quite confident that with the continued drop in the prices of SSDs, it will eventually become the standard hard drive for notebooks and laptops.
I would also love to have an SSD for my PC but capacity is a great deal breaker for me. Current SSD capacities are just to little right now especially for capacity-hungry applications.
But Toshiba (http://www.toshiba.co.uk/) seems to be on the way to solving this capacity problem. It recently announced the first 2.5-inch, 512GB flash-based drive as well as other SSDs with capacities that go up to 256GB.
Among the drives that will be shown during the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas in a few weeks are the 512GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB drives that will come in 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch form factors.
These new Toshiba SSDs will sport the new MLC controller that allows higher read and write speeds, parallel data transfers as well as wear levelling that can significantly improve performance and reliability.
These drives are definitely on my want list next year.
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That’s brilliant! I have a netbook too, the Asus 1000H to be exact and was looking to replace it with an SSD. Although currently I couldn’t find anything that was the size I wanted. 512 GB is ridiculous though and PERFECT for what I need. That’s awesome that they have been able to get the SSD’s that high. Looks like I’ve found my next SSD, once the price becomes reasonable.
To toshiba!
I red its the first to release this kind of HDD or I say SSD
SSD is a option, but the future of saving datas is MRAM. new memory technology, based on electron spin. MRAM promises to bring non-volatile, low-power, high speed memory, and at a low cost, too. MRAM is called “the holy grail” of memory, and has the potential to replace FLASH, DRAM and even hard-discs.
Toshiba has announced a new top-of-the-range Dynabook SS RX2/WAJ,” the world’s first PC with an integrated 512GB SSD (Solid State Drive). The new model is available in two versions from today at Toshiba’s on-line shop