SSD drive is usually developed with 2.5 “design, characterized by performance above average, especially as access times, but limited storage capacity. The high cost of memory chips has always forced producers to present solutions from 64 up to 128GB, already in many of these cases, with the excess cost.

Toshiba, known Japanese company, announced yesterday that at the CES in Las Vegas will present its solution from 512GB SSD, the first solid state disk to achieve a similar capacity. From a technical standpoint, the producer was entrusted to chip MLC (Multi-level cell) 43 nm: in order to ensure a similar amount of capacity, the choice of adopting solutions MLC, in many cases even less efficient compared to SLC (Single-level cell) is forced.
The new family will be characterized by a design 2.5 “, but declined to solutions ultra portable 1.8″, and distributed with denominations of 64, 128 and 256GB. The first samples are expected in early 2009, while the large-scale production will begin only in the second quarter. The new models will be characterized by speed reading and writing respectively 240MBps and 200MBps.
According to the forecasts of Toshiba, SSD units during 2009 will erode important points of market share against traditional discs, reaching approximately 10% of the notebook segment in 2010 and up to 25% by 2012.
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