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Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive

Posted by timothy on from the bits-o'-plenty dept.

designperfection9 writes "Toshiba said Thursday that it will show off a new line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD. The drive is based on a 43 nanometer Multi-Level Cell NAND and claims to offer a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebooks as well as gaming and home entertainment systems."

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  1. Re:Random read/write? by Timothy+Brownawell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except that previous drives have well-known severe problems with random IO, so I'm kinda suspicious that they specified sequential speeds rather than take the opportunity to say "see, we don't have that bug that everyone else does".

  2. Just give me a cheap fast 64GB already by ChienAndalu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When are the small SSD drives coming? I just need to put my operating system on the SSD-drive, the mp3s and movies are doing fine on the spinning platter. 512GB are total overkill.