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.
posted Mar 26th 2008 12:19PM
256Gb?
Yeah. It doubles every time just like RAM. 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 etc.
REALLY?!
Meh! Someone call the sarcasm police.
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 =/
@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.
Is there really a difference between sequential and random read/write speeds on an SSD?
weee
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.
But now that they say the SSD-based lappys have a higher failure rate, I just can't get excited.
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.
but will it play doom?
OH COME ON!
usually, when anyone else says it, i detect the underlying sarcasm. however, you say it like you just joined the internet. le sigh.
I wanna see it blend!!!
Considering the "price upon request" part of the entire thing, I hope to god it doesn't blend!
I'm pretty sure a few more people would be a lot more excited for "The world cheapest 256GB SSD"
if you look at the spec sheet on the website, it says that its only 9.5mm thick. is that not the 256GB version?
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
Most importantly.. Will It Blend?
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?
Price is $5,950 and sold only to OEMs. http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/03/supertalent-to.html
The thinnest SSD requires the fattest wallet.
...thats what she said.
I can't wait when SSD gets cheaper...
RE: The article
I think the use of this device would be geared toward customized small size devices. Military certainly can afford such prices.
Rummy what's the real production cost..
(like iPhone, which is $40 nad selling for $400 :))