Second Generation Solid State Drives

[Schlup]

Finally they are about the release the SSD's that I can't live without and I can keep my RAID 0 1TB as well.  Story below.

Next Generation SSD Family Achieves High Levels Of Performance, Endurance, Capacity and Reliability.
As one of the first companies to enter the solid state drive market with a family of products based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND technology, Toshiba has announced the industry's first 2.5-inch MLC 512GB1 solid state drive (SSD) based on 43-nanometer (nm) technology. 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 of 2009.

Compared to hard disk drives (HDDs), SSDs realize faster boot time, higher reliability, improved performance and no mechanical sound. Toshiba's new SSDs utilize an advanced MLC controller 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.

New 43nm Solid State Drive Product Family
Form Factor
 2.5-inch SSD
 1.8-inch SSD
 1.8-inch Flash Module
 
Capacities
 512GB
256GB
128GB
64GB
 256GB
128GB
64GB
 256GB
128GB
64GB
 
Size
 69.9 (W) x 9.5(H) x100(D) mm
 54.0(W) x 5.0(H) x78.5(D) mm
 53.6(W) x 3.0(H) x 70.6(D) mm
 
Weight
 66g (Typ.)
 44g (Typ.)
 15g (Typ.)
 
Max. Reading Speed
 240MBps (sequential mode)
 
Max. Writing Speed
 200MBps (sequential mode)
 
Interface
 Serial ATA-2 (3Gbps3)
 
Voltage
 3.3V (Module, 1.8-inch type), 5V (2.5-inch type)
 
Temperature
 0 to 70 degrees Celsius
 
MTTF4
 1 million hours
 
Samples
 Q1 2009
 

[Monkey_Grill]

Oh yeah!

[Sir-diealot]

All Greek to me.

[Schlup]

In laymans terms.  Super big hard drives that hold lots of data and they run blazing fast...faster than any other hard drive in the world...so you can start your computer and run programs in record time.

[Sir-diealot]

Well why do they have to put all that gobbleygook in there when they can just say that?

[Schlup]

Well why do they have to put all that gobbleygook in there when they can just say that?

Well they put that stuff in there for people like me that want to know the details such as how big, how fast, typical lifetime of the drive, etc.

[Destro]

All that and no estimated costs

[Sir-diealot]

Well they put that stuff in there for people like me that want to know the details such as how big, how fast, typical lifetime of the drive, etc.

Semantics

[Schlup]

I think the costs should be inline with current SSD models...I would expect $300 or $400 for the big ones.

[Destro]

I think the costs should be inline with current SSD models...I would expect $300 or $400 for the big ones.

So they should be fairly affordable when I am ready to upgrade.