Toshiba unveils 512GB solid state drive

[Barman58]

Toshiba unveils 512GB solid state drive

New range of drives coming in 2009


Toshiba has unveiled the world's first 2.5in 512GB solid state drive (SSD), designed to provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, and gaming and home entertainment systems.
The company also unveiled a broad family of SSDs based on its 43nm Nand chips, offering capacities of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB in 1.8in or 2.5in enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules.


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Toshiba unveils 512GB solid state drive - vnunet.com

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

Probably expensive compared to SAS and SCSI.

 

[Barman58]

Hi michael,

Talking to someone the other day who is using SSD system based on 32GB units and paying 16 Pounds Sterling per gig - so I would call that a bit steep. :eek:

they will drop in price in time I'm sure :D

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

My Savvio 10K SAS 2.5" drives are $2 US a GB. $300 for 146GB.

 

[Dwarf]

Talking to someone the other day who is using SSD system based on 32GB units and paying 16 Pounds Sterling per gig - so I would call that a bit steep. :eek:

they will drop in price in time I'm sure :D

Let's put these costs into perspective.

In 1982 a 10MB drive and controller cost more than $2,000 ($200,000 per gigabyte), a figure which would actually be more than double that amount in today's dollars. Currently, the cost of desktop hard drives (with integrated controllers) has dropped to $0.28 per gigabyte or less - or about 500GB for $140! Laptop drives have fallen to $0.67 per gigabyte or less, or about 120GB for $80.

I realise that this is about conventional HDDs, but I would expect that the same will prevail for the SSD devices. And yes, you did read that correctly - a 10MB drive.

 

[rich12313]

Thats nice. too bad ill have to sell my body to science to get one. :P