Toshiba just stepped up to the SSD plate and knocked one out of the park with its 256GB solid-state hard drive. The laptop drive is understandably small, but also quick with 128MB maximum read speed and 70MB write speed via 3Gbps SATA interface. Mass production of the drive should start sometime in the coming months and should hit the consumer market shortly after that with a yet to be announced price.
Highly Recommended,
Pros
Ive been using usb keys for a while now, and nothing compares to the speed of these. I cant belive just how fast this SSDHD is..
Cons:
Ive always worried about storing large amounts of data on dynamic memory devices, as they can crash and when they do all data goes with it.
Well, to correct your statement, this is not a dynamic drive. It is a solid state drive. With a dynamic media system, such as RAM, when power goes, all data goes too. With a solid state media… its just like a hard drive, and operates as such, the difference is, instead of using magnetic platters to save bits, it uses large amounts of static memory, again, not dynamic memory. The entire drive is made of static memory chips. Much faster read/write operations.
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I’ve been following up on SSD’s and i’m all in favour of them. I have a Toshiba P205 laptop, since new and i have already droped the HD in it. It would seem to be a soft spot in Toshiba laptops as this is the 3rd laptop and the 3rd HD replacement, replaced them with Seagate HD’s. Being as, other than memory replacement to speed them up, SSD’s is a good idea only the price hurts (at present). If you only use them for only OEM storage and every thing else on external drive i can’t see a problem, just benifits and that will make my expensive donkey go harder. Maybe Toshiba will get it right with SSD’s I’m hoping so.
whats the price