Toshiba has expanded their line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives with the 2.5-inch 512-GB SSD. Toshiba says the new drives provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, gaming and home entertainment systems.
Toshiba's new line of 43nm NAND SSD family also includes 64GB, 128GB and 256GB units in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch form factors or as SSD Flash Modules. Toshiba claims the second-generation SSDs offer increased capacity and performance for notebook computers. The drives offer maximum sequential read speed of 240MBps and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps, enabling an improvement in overall computing experience, and faster boot and application loading times. The AES data encryption prevents unauthorized data access.
"The solid state drive market is evolving rapidly, with higher performance drives to meet market requirements, and differentiated product families targeted for appropriate applications," said Mr. Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Vice President of Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company. "This new 43nm SSD family balances value/performance characteristics for its targeted consumer applications, through use of MLC NAND and an advanced controller architecture."
No word on price yet, but Toshiba expects to start mass production in the second quarter in 2009.
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