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Toshiba Begins Selling MacBook Air SSD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the double-it-please dept.

Lucas123 writes "Toshiba has made the solid state drive used in the new MacBook Air generally available for use by equipment manufacturers. At just 2.2mm thick, the company said the drive represents a new form factor that is about one-third the thickness of a thin hard disk drive and that is 42% smaller than even a mini-SATA SSD module. The new Blade X-gale SSD series has a maximum throughput of 220MB/sec. and can store up to 256GB of data."

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  1. First sale! by line-bundle · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now where do I install it?

    1. Re:First sale! by rvw · · Score: 2, Funny

      Now where do I install it?

      Up your airs of course!

  2. Re:Faster! by sakdoctor · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, but your desktop system will fit into a manilla envelope.

  3. Re:SSD's are awesome, but the cost... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've been pricing out a new laptop, and I've love to get one with SSDs, but DAMN they're expensive. I'd rather engineers focus on reducing manufacturing costs than making them smaller.

    How does a guy wishing SSDs cost less money get modded "interesting"? Everyone wants everything to cost less. The entire PC ecosystem is obsessed with cost reduction, to the exclusion of all else.

  4. Re:SSD's are awesome, but the cost... by tom17 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Grammar fail. That's what comes from changing your sentence structure half way through without re-reading the whole thing again.

  5. One, Two, Three! Ah ah ah! by kinabrew · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we install more than one of these in a system and then configure them like a RAID 0 array?

    I'd like to connect four 250GB SSD modules together to form a 1TB portable RAID 0 SSD.