Posted on 12/18/2008 11:42:45 PM PST by smokingfrog
Las Vegas (CA) – Toshiba said it will showcase a 512 GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive at next month’s Consumer Electronics show (CES). The 2.5” drive is likely to be the highest-capacity SSD when shown at the tradeshow, but the device will not go into production until the second half of next year.
Toshiba’s new SSD will continue the race for the highest capacity SSD and given the fact that 2.5” SSDs are now hitting a range that is still considered to be mainstream for traditional 3.5” hard drives and high-end for 2.5” drives is impressive.
In terms of performance, the drive will follow the path of recent SSDs announcements and is promised to offer a read speed of 240 MB/s and write speeds of 200 MB/s. These specifications put the drive among the fastest SSDs currently on the market. There was no information on how much power the drive will consume.
SSD announcements typically come without any pricing information – with a good reason, since these drives are typically expensive and are not in reach for the mainstream buyer. While Toshiba’s 512 GB drive is based on the firm’s 43 nm Multi-Level-Cell (MLC) NAND flash technology, which is often an indication of lower-priced drives, we received word that the drive will not cheap and cost at least what current 256 GB drives are going for when it will become available in the second half of next year.
Today’s 256 GB drives cover a wide range from a rumored sub-$1000 price that OEMs pay for Samsung’s largest SSDs at this time to about $8000 for industry-grade devices. Most 256 GB SSDs that are actually available through retail stores carry price tags between $3000 and $5000 these days.
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I saw solid state and my mind immediately went to amplifiers. And it also simultaneously thought “tube amps are king.”
I’m a weird person.
Is it really a big deal to scale up SSD drives to higher capacities? Isn’t it just a matter of addition of more memory modules within the enclosure?
The thing with traditional hard-drives was that reliably enclosing the intricate electro-mechanical components into a smaller package was always complicated. In this case, the size restrictions are rather imposing.
Just a matter of time; ‘spinning’ drives will go the way of 8-track tapes. Good riddance, I say.
if this gets cheap...man i guess i t would mean near instant startup, and a massive reduction in power requirements and indeed heat in server rooms. the battery life of a laptop would skyrocket.
or am i just wishing?
wonder what the reliability and lifetime of them are?
I’ll stick with my HD and sub $100 price for a while, plenty of capacity for what I need...
BUT TUBES? I think of 813’s, 4-1000A, 3-1000Z when I think of tubes. It’s almost time to dust off the old ham gear and see if 80 meters at 4 am is still fun....
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Can it calculate tips?
SET amps can do some things very well and I recently auditioned 2 models from a company that truly addressed the all-tube SET shortcomings.
Looking forward to exhibiting at CES with an Italian solid state amp/preamp that are flat to 3Mhz and sound like a great OTL tube amp....but better.
[if this gets cheap...man i guess i t would mean near instant startup, and a massive reduction in power requirements and indeed heat in server rooms. the battery life of a laptop would skyrocket.]
Heck, I think I could run a pretty damn good Linux web and database server in well under 40 gigs. I need to see what’s on the market now.
Well, I had Marshall amps in mind...
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