Toshiba plans for Flash-Based Solid-State drives
Now Toshiba too joins the gang of those flash-based solid-state drive manufacturers, who will face competition from 32G bytes, 64G bytes and 128G bytes drives based on NAND flash memory soon. These drives will offer faster boot times and lower power consumption than hard disk drives. It plans to ramp up the production, that has already experienced a boost from Samsung and Sandisk, that will cause the adoption lower priced drives.
Company will start the production of 1.8 - and 2.5-inch SATA drives in May. The maximum read speed for the drives is said to touch100M bytes per second, and that for writing will be 40M bytes per second using a SATA II interface with a transfer rate of 3G bps. These disks are more durable than current ones and will possess life expectancy of around 1 million hours. The drives will be at display on 7th of January at CES show.
Via: MSNBC
