Super Talent ships "world's thinnest" 256GB SSD, still too thick for us

We've learned to be extra cautious whenever some company tosses out that "world's thinnest" claim, and while this one isn't an outright lie, it's not exactly as impressive as Super Talent would have you believe. Yeah, the outfit's 256GB FSD56GC25H SSD actually is the slimmest on the market today at this capacity, but the 12.5-millimeter height makes it incompatible with a slew of laptops that can only handle drives that are 9.5-millimeters thick. Nevertheless, those with the room to spare can look forward to 0.1-millisecond access times, 65MB/sec sequential read speeds and 50MB/sec sequential write speeds (maximums), and a lightweight aluminum enclosure. Per usual, pricing information is available only upon request -- but no, it won't be cheap.

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 26th 2008 12:21PM]

256Gb?

[imacmatt09 @ Mar 26th 2008 12:25PM]

Yeah. It doubles every time just like RAM. 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 etc.

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 26th 2008 12:28PM]

REALLY?!

[imacmatt09 @ Mar 26th 2008 12:33PM]

Meh! Someone call the sarcasm police.

[Obsidian desire @ Mar 26th 2008 2:04PM]

Incorrent, it's not 256Gigabits, it's 256GigaBytes
(Gb = Gigabits, GB = Gigabytes)

It freaked me out at first, like the flash on a wii is 512Mb NOT MB meaning it's something idiotic like 486MB =/

[James @ Mar 26th 2008 3:10PM]

@Obsidian: That's not the difference between Megabits and Megabytes. Megabytes are 8 Megabits, so if the flash on the wii was really 512mbit, it would be only 64MB, not 486MB.

The 486MB vs 512MB is due to formatting and possibly due to system reserved space.

[Sean M. @ Mar 26th 2008 12:30PM]

But now that they say the SSD-based lappys have a higher failure rate, I just can't get excited.

[Lars @ Mar 26th 2008 4:45PM]

SSDs just aren't suited to most OS's, since OS's tend to do a lot of reading/writing constantly. SSDs have a drastically shorter rw life-span than traditional HDDs. Good for storage though. The only benifet to putting them in laptops over traditional HDDs is they're a bit more vibration-safe. But traditional HDDs aren't terrible vs vibration, and to be honest, if your laptop is sustaining that much trauma, it's probably going to have other failures as well.

[wintermute @ Mar 26th 2008 12:31PM]

Is there really a difference between sequential and random read/write speeds on an SSD?

[Acerguy @ Mar 26th 2008 12:39PM]

weee

[Ty @ Mar 26th 2008 4:24PM]

Yes, though not nearly as big of a difference compared to hard drives.

That said, my RAID arrays kick 65/50 MB/sec in the pussy.

[Acerguy @ Mar 26th 2008 12:36PM]

but will it play doom?

[PhilxBefore @ Mar 26th 2008 12:38PM]

OH COME ON!

[teej @ Mar 26th 2008 3:28PM]

usually, when anyone else says it, i detect the underlying sarcasm. however, you say it like you just joined the internet. le sigh.

[retro77 @ Mar 26th 2008 12:51PM]

I wanna see it blend!!!

[y3k.nik @ Mar 26th 2008 1:15PM]

Considering the "price upon request" part of the entire thing, I hope to god it doesn't blend!

[kal326 @ Mar 26th 2008 1:45PM]

I'm pretty sure a few more people would be a lot more excited for "The world cheapest 256GB SSD"

[Andrew @ Mar 26th 2008 2:16PM]

if you look at the spec sheet on the website, it says that its only 9.5mm thick. is that not the 256GB version?

[craig @ Mar 26th 2008 2:58PM]

The drives are 9.5mm thick for all capacities except 256MB (which is 12.5mm). See http://www.supertalent.com/products/ssd-consumer.php?type=SATA

[Bobby @ Mar 26th 2008 2:18PM]

Most importantly.. Will It Blend?

[umm....hello??? @ Mar 26th 2008 2:56PM]

sooo...pricing available upon request? c'mon, you really didn't already send them a request so you could tell us the price in an update?

[Kevin C. Tofel @ Mar 26th 2008 3:23PM]

Price is $5,950 and sold only to OEMs. http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/03/supertalent-to.html

[Loonie @ Mar 26th 2008 3:24PM]

The thinnest SSD requires the fattest wallet.

[OneLove @ Mar 26th 2008 3:46PM]

...thats what she said.

[Junkie @ Mar 26th 2008 8:18PM]

I can't wait when SSD gets cheaper...

[iWicko @ Mar 27th 2008 1:33AM]

Rummy what's the real production cost..
(like iPhone, which is $40 nad selling for $400 :))

[Metal @ Apr 5th 2008 9:26PM]

RE: The article

I think the use of this device would be geared toward customized small size devices. Military certainly can afford such prices.