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TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE
    #9459570 - 12/19/08 12:00 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

I hope this technology advances quickly, I would like to see drives with much higher data i/o rates, and less failures. I am tired of losing drives.


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RVINE, Calif., and TOKYO December 18, 2008 — 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.

"The solid state drive market is evolving rapidly, with higher performance drives to meet market requirements, and differentiated product families targeted for appropriate applications," said Mr. Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Vice President of Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company. "This new 43nm SSD family balances value/performance characteristics for its targeted consumer applications, through use of MLC NAND and an advanced controller architecture."

Toshiba and many market analysts expect SSDs to begin to gain significant traction in the market in 2009, growing to approximately 10% of the notebook market by 2010, and 25% of the notebook market by 2012. Toshiba expects the value/performance of its MLC NAND-based SSD line-up to help speed the acceptance of solid state storage.

Toshiba will continue to promote innovations that widen the horizons of the NAND Flash market and support its continued leadership in that market. The company will spur demand for SSDs in notebook PCs, netbooks, laptops and digital consumer products by enhancing its lineup, offering products with different densities and interfaces in a range of packages, while advancing device performance. For more information on Toshiba SSDs, please visit ssd.toshiba.com.


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Re: TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE [Re: tak]
    #9461280 - 12/19/08 09:50 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah, they're pretty neat.

One of the guys at work has a solid-state drive on his mini-laptop, and it boots up in about two seconds.

Hellaciously expensive still though.


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Re: TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE [Re: tak]
    #9461630 - 12/19/08 11:26 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Solid state drives are very nice, I've always wondered why they only cater to notebook users?  I'm assuming because of price. 

Regardless, they are nice.

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Re: TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE [Re: Lana]
    #9466673 - 12/20/08 11:54 AM (15 years, 2 months ago)

Yeah, I'm all for solid state drives, until you reach the 100,000th read/write cycle. Then it's dead.











but

"While 100,000 cycles seems slight, it's more than 100GB of new information written to the disk every day for five years before approaching failure"


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Re: TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE [Re: citricacidx]
    #9468044 - 12/20/08 04:30 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

I would assume their life would grow with development

But i know nothing about the process so i may be wrong


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Re: TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE [Re: tak]
    #9470966 - 12/21/08 02:57 AM (15 years, 2 months ago)

whats the average price of something like this, if yet established? Also, why arent they being marketed towards desktop computers?

seems that if ss drives could boot a laptop in 2 seconds, they could boot a desktop in the same time...


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Re: TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE [Re: ManianFH]
    #9472256 - 12/21/08 11:29 AM (15 years, 2 months ago)

shit's expensive right now. OCZ just introduced a line that has 30GB, 60GB, 120GB or 250GB edition right now for $129, $249, $469, and $869, respectively.


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