What’s the limit with storage capacity for SSDs, perhaps eternity we guess? If you thought the 256GB solid state drives for laptops were enough for the maximum we slogged over the machine, then except Toshiba’s invite to the CES 2009, where Toshiba aims at introducing the industry’s first 2.5-inch 512GB Solid State Drive. Lots of GBs indeed, but nothing superior comes cheap, so get set to empty your pockets if you wish to own one of those rigs housing this storage capacity.
The mass production for the drives is slated for the second quarter of 2009, after it is made official in the first. We were unable to latch on to any specific details or pricing of the SSD, yet from the very little that’s available, these HDD mimicking 512GB SSDs will flaunt a read speed of 240MBps, while they will settle for a modest 200MBps for the writing speed. So, the future of mobile computing rests in the laps of high storage, and substantial read-write speeds to match with…welcome to the go-lucky high-capacity generation.
Via: CNet
Fantastic news… I can’t wait till these become standard in every laptop… even better, they seem to be growing in size far faster than traditional HD too!
