Toshiba rolls out 256GB laptop SSD, 32GB flash modules for netbooks

Published: September 26, 2008, 2:13 am

Tags: 2 5 inch, 256gb, 3 mm, 3 0 mm, flash, mlc, nand, netbook, ssd, toshiba

Filed under: StorageGet your flash here, red hot flash memory. Toshiba is now sampling its new 256GB SSD with a 120MB max read and 70MBps write via 3.0Gbps SATA interface -- not the fastest consumer SSD but not not bad. This 2.5-inch slab measures just 3.0-mm thick and targets laptops looking to shed the 9.5-mm constraint presented by standard hard disks. Like Samsung, Tosh also announced new 8GB, 16GB and 32GB SATA flash modules aimed directly at the booming netbook market with speeds topping-out at 80MBps for reads and 50MBps for writes. All the drives feature MLC-based NAND which accounts for the less-than blazing SSD speeds. On the other hand, that should help keep the costs low when these things ship in quantity later this year.Read Permalink Email this Comments

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