Toshiba dreams of 512GB SSDs, invites you to join in
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 23rd 2008 9:42PM
posted Apr 23rd 2008 9:42PM
Move over Samsung -- that 256GB SSD you've been touting is now half as cool as it used to be. According to reports stemming from a Japanese seminar which saw Toshiba's Shozo Saito take the stage, the firm is hoping to flesh out its line of solid state discs within the next few years. More specifically, it's looking to offer drives with as much as 512GB of room, and Mr. Saito himself expects a full quarter of laptops sold in 2011 to come equipped with an SSD. Figure out a way to get those stratospheric prices down, and we doubt it'll take that long.[Via CNET]
*glances at 80GB platter drive*
"Yes, I am looking at YOU!"
with your low prices and super-fast read times..
Wow. It took practically forever to have 500GB and 1TB HDDs.. and in only a few years, we'll have 512GB SSDs... too bad they won't be in the same price bracket for another decade or two.
I wouldn't talk about 10-20 years time in computing if I were you. the advances between 1988-2008 were almost unthinkable - not only that but the RATE of advance is ever increasing... It's been predicted that between 2030-2050, we'll have AI at human level (or greater).
Yeah, I think it's better to measure growth starting from those 16MB smartmedia cards or something. It's gone this far this quickly just because there's been a tipping point of commercial viability, the tech's mostly been there for a while.
not to mention the same preformance for another.. several more decades after that
Lots of porn for on the go.
Until SSD failure
Then lots of porn gone forever
:(
@ThePenguin
But that time, it'll be at least 50 years old, which would be equivalent to watching 1950-1960s pron now....which, IMO, is just, well, wrong....
This must have been the same reaction a couple of years ago when they first came out with the 512 MB flash drive. They were huge at the time but slowly grew smaller.
Just saying...... It may take longer, but it will happen.
It's a cycle....
you have mad prediction skillz
I think 2011 might be pushing it. SSD's can still add thousands of dollars to laptops, and I for one do not want to spend 5-6 grand on my next ultraportable.
Don't get me wrong, I would love a 512GB SSD in my Vaio TX, but I don't want to have to drop out of University to afford it.
ever heard of economies of scale?
let this groove light up your shoes
Never tried SSD, so I don't know or do I care for, at this time, the benefits of SSD. Bigger is better. SSD can't do it yet. and the price....Oh hell NO.
One thing, I own a 4G EEE PC. While I love the machine, I was under the impression SSD based machines ran silent and cool - because it was hard drives and/or powerful processors cause regular laptops to get so hot and noisy. As an owner of a MacBook, that does get hot and noisy, I can confirm that my EEE PC, despite being small and cute - gets equally hot and ALMOST as noisy. Yes, it has a fan! Did you know the EEE PC had a fan? I was very surprised - and it is the only disappointment. Thing is, I don't know if the heat and noise has anything to do with the SSD. Any ideas folks?
the eeepc is so small it gets hot quick and the new eeepcs that have atom should generate less heat.
I don't think your SDD is making your eeepc that hot, its probably the other components.
it doesnt have an SSD. It has flash memory. there is a difference. the difference is not relevant to your fan but i thought i would just point out that your EEE has flash memory, not an SSD
Unless you're running a high speed hdd, heat from the drive is low compared to the cpu in a laptop (also true for desktops). Consider things in terms of wattage (roughly equates to heat output).
I just did a little reading up on the EEE's components. The CPU on it puts out 3-25 watts depending on load. The mobo and RAM add a few more watts each. The only other main heat producer is the storage. SSDs put out less than 1 watt. Spinning laptop storage tends to put out 2-3 watts.
The flash memory is not your heat problem.
yeah it still has a processor to keep cool! my hard drive makes almost no noise, but my fan makes a lot
SSD drives are still outrageously expensive in comparison to a Hard Disk Drive of the same capacity.
When I can buy a 500 gig SSD for the same price as a 500 gig HDD, then I'll consider it. Until then, no.
i hear you dude but at the moment HDD's are still kicking SSD's ass
when u pay 1k for a drive you expect some serious performance
apple.. you stupid assholes
SSD out perform HDD in power consumption by a large margin. Peak power consumption of an SSD is about equal to idle on a HDD. Also random read times are faster with an SSD than a HDD (this is especially true as the load increases, SSD's are awesome for webservers). Random writes kill the HDD, overall though the performance should be comparable with more battery life.
If Samsung does what they usually do, we should expect soon:
"Samsung demos working super high capacity SSD, bests Toshiba"
i'm going to nit-pick, but here goes:
in my opinion, you can't call them "solid state discs" anymore because there's no physical disc, just solid-state circuitry on a chunk of silicon. better refer to them as "solid state drives" if you want to avoid the ire of my fellow detail-oriented commenters.
I'm studied EE undergrad, and as far as I know we always used SSD to stand for solid state devices - which could be a number of things that use transistor based memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
Note the word at the end.
I dream of 512gb SSDs for $99.
Is it not fairly obvious that we soon will have 512 GB SSDs? The same way it's fairly obvious that our processors will hit 5 GHz and that we'll have a consumer-grade graphics card that consumes at least 1 KW by itself.
Anyhow, what I believe is great is that for many people ~32 GB is more than enough storage space for the coming 3-4 years. I'm not looking at us nerds, I'm looking at those that make up the majority of computer buyers, companies and non-nerds. And a 32 GB SSD should be able to reach a sub-$100 price in two years time or so. And I'm not talking out my ass, the first groups to pick up SSD is companies as witnessed by notebooks from Toshiba, Dell and Lenovo which has packed these for a year or two.
5GHz? that would produce a very hot and unreliable cpu, so I don't think we'll see these sorts of speeds, developments is going the way of smaller and noded chips anyway! The forthcoming GPUs will likely be 55nm designs, therefore consumption should ideally be below 200W even in hi-end chips.
on a side note: a 2.5" 32Gb Transcend SSD can be had on ebay for about £135, in a couple of years a 512Gb I imagine will be available for a similar price?
I would disagree that 32GB is enough for the average user. If OS and software continues with the bloatware, then you can expect a 16GB Windows 10 OS.
I am exaggerating but hopefully get my point.
so... Toshiba's focusing on other areas besides HD DVD... could that spell its doom?
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I hope Toshiba's SSD's will not be as lousy as their notebooks.
Toshiba = Toilet paper
I don't see the big deal in how many GB can be packed into an SSD. The price makes it ho-hum news.
This is different from DRAM milestones that achieve a higher capacity on a single chip.