That’s a lot of gigs! Until just now, 256GB was the upper limit on SSD capacity, and chances are it’s the size you’ll be getting in your laptops and such over the next year — they’ll be available in April but probably super expensive. Toshiba, however, has decided that 256 is not enough, and has doubled the capacity of its 2.5″ drives to a massive 512GB, which rivals HDDs in size, if not in price. I have to say, the read and write speeds aren’t looking too shabby, either.
The 1.8″ form factor drives have been bumped to up to 256GB, which means you may be seeing some seriously spacious media players soon (likely expensive as well). I’ll be checking this out personally at CES in January.
[via Akihabara News]
Sweet!
Fantastic news… I can’t wait till these become standard in every laptop… even better, they seem to be growing in size far faster than traditional HD too!
Jon
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It is amazing how far technology has come in such a short period of time. I can remember when this type of storage was only a dream. The fact that everything has been consolidated into such a small form is amazing. Everything seems to be right at the touch of a button.
I have been predicting this for several years. I’m happy to see it is finally happening. The least reliable part of a computer is getting to be the hard drive with all the moving parts.
A move to total SDDs will be a sea change in computing. As was mentioned, capacity is increasing much faster than it did in HDDs. I expect to see a TB SDD very soon.
If you look at the volume occupied by a traditional drive, you can fit a lot of flash memory in it. Then when you consider the lower power consumption less heat, and the speeds are close enough over all that it will make no difference to most users.