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Toshiba adds 256GB SSD to its range of storage solutions

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Published: Monday 29th September, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: 256GB SSD (THNS256GE8BC)
Companies: Toshiba (All Toshiba content)

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In addition to making inroads on its range of 1.8in hard-disk drives, Toshiba has announced the arrival of "an industry-leading" 256GB solid-state drive (SSD).

The device, pictured below, features a multi-level cell (MLC) controller allowing for parallel data transfer and higher read-write speeds. Toshiba quotes maximum read and write speeds of 120MB/s and 70MB/s, respectively. That, however, is a fair amount slower than Intel's 80GB drive which offers read speeds of up to 250MB/s.

The 2.5in notebook-orientated SSD will also be joined by a trio of small flash modules, aimed at the burgeoning netbook market. The modules will be available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities, and will provide read and write speeds of 80MB/s and 50MB/s, respectively.

There's no word on pricing just yet, but mass production for all four products is expected in Q4 2008.

Official press release: Toshiba Launches 256GB Solid State Drives with MLC


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Re: News - Toshiba adds 256GB SSD to its range of storage solutions
Posted by AdamAnubis - Mon 29th Sep 2008, 3:02pm
w00p! Hoping to get a SSD by christmas, but the prices are still a lil high. Hopefully in november they will start rolling them all out.

*waits for corsair SSD* :PQuote
Re: News - Toshiba adds 256GB SSD to its range of storage solutions
Posted by TheAnimus - Mon 29th Sep 2008, 3:29pm
thing is thou without pricing its hard to get excited, if its cheaper to get two 128GB you get a MUCH better performance because SSD have been seen to scale almost linearly.

RAID'ing up a couple of the intel 250mb/s chappies would be quite tempting.Quote
Re: News - Toshiba adds 256GB SSD to its range of storage solutions
Posted by Betty_Swallocks - Mon 29th Sep 2008, 3:34pm
Agreed. I'll start to get excited about SSDs when the price drops to a point that I can afford one.Quote
Re: News - Toshiba adds 256GB SSD to its range of storage solutions
Posted by Stoo - Mon 29th Sep 2008, 6:39pm
mmmm raid5 ssd :DQuote
Re: News - Toshiba adds 256GB SSD to its range of storage solutions
Posted by badass - Tue 30th Sep 2008, 7:36am
I wonder if they suffer from the over 1 second small file write latency that all of the cheapo SSD's suffer from? causing Vista installs to fail and OSX to appear to keep locking up?Quote

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