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theRepublic on 18 December 2008

Toshiba to Debut 512-Gbyte SSDs at CES

12.18.08

by Brian Heater

Toshiba on Thursday announced another big step in the industry-wide adoption of solid state drives--the first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD. The drive will make its public debut at CES in January.

The company will also be debuting a number of different capacity SSD drives--64-, 128, and 256GB drives, available in either 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch form factors. The drives feature MLC controllers, read speeds of 240 Mbytes/s, and write speeds of 200 Mbytes/s.

The drives also contain AES data encryption.

"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 MKiyoshi Kobayashi, vice president of Toshiba Corporation's semiconductor company, in a statement. "This new 43nm SSD family balances value/performance characteristics for its targeted consumer applications, through use of MLC NAND and an advanced controller architecture."

Samples will be available in the first quarter of 2009, with mass production beginning the second quarter.

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It seems the technology is coming along nicely.  I wonder how expensive they are going to be.
Any predictions on when we are going to see the industry move away from hard drives to SSDs?


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Rainbird on 18 December 2008

Sweet! I hope we see a good cost/gigabyte ratio for them (or perhaps, "reasonable" is the word to use.)



crumas2 on 18 December 2008

I'm not sure if SSD drives will ever replace traditional hard drives for all applications, but the capacities are climbing rapidly. I'm guessing the cost of this new drive will be several thousand dollars.



thekitchensink on 18 December 2008

So what exactly are the advantages of solid state over a hard drive?



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theRepublic on 18 December 2008

I'm not the most knowledgeable person on this, but if I remember correctly, the advatages include:

No moving parts
Faster read/write times
Less space
Less energy use

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT:  I think they are more reliable, too.



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vlad321 on 18 December 2008

I already amde a whole thread about SSDs when I learned of USB 3.0 (4.8 gig/s data transfer rate). I predict we'll go SSD within a few years when the 128 models become even cheaper, and several more years until 64 gig ones and such become cheap enough to be mass produced until we start seeing games sold on them. Disc drives have run their course, SSD is the true successor to the CD/DVD, just like they were the true successors of the magnetic tape, not the BluRay, as some would like you to think.



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Strategyking92 on 18 December 2008

the cost....



THE COST!!!!



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HappySqurriel on 18 December 2008
thekitchensink said:
So what exactly are the advantages of solid state over a hard drive?

 

A solid state drive has dramatically lower seek times and latency which results in much higher data transfer rates ... On top of that, if you put 2 (or 4) solid state discs into a Raid 0 configuration you get (roughly) twice (or 4 times) the data transfer rate.

Also, spinning the disc takes a lot of energy and produces quite a bit of heat which limits how small or portable a laptop (or other device) can become.



akuma587 on 18 December 2008

At least these things are coming out. It will probably be several years until drives of this size are affordable though.

Its ironic that most people were complaining about hard drives not being big enough but then we went with technology that is real expensive to make large hard drives with.

Not that I am complaining, as solid state offers A LOT of advantages, but I just find it ironic that in some ways we took a temporary step backwards.



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