SuperTalent bolsters SSD lineup with cheaper options

SuperTalent's wide lineup of SSDs got a little bigger today, with the addition of some low(er)-cost MLC flash-based gear. Like the company's earlier "world's thinnest" 256GB drive, the three new models are external units, and you're looking at capacities of 30GB, 60GB, and 120GB for $299, $449, and $699, respectively. That's actually not all that bad, considering a bare 64GB SLC SSD can run an easy grand. Available now, it looks like.

[Via jkOnTheRun]

[tomo @ May 7th 2008 6:45AM]

why cant the just add a load of 8GB micro sd cards together there only like $20 each for us and like $2 fir them

[torqueo @ May 7th 2008 7:08AM]

The obvious: microSDHC Class 6 isn't as fast as a good SSD.

[sk @ May 7th 2008 7:10AM]

There are plenty of options out that do exactly that. One good product is from Addonics the Quad-CF PCI Card.

[w00t @ May 7th 2008 7:10AM]

Because Micro SD cards can only manage a couple of MB/sec and so would be useless as an SSD, unless you enjoy 10 minute boot times :)

[Kizorblade @ May 7th 2008 7:15AM]

Maybe he does like 10 minute boot times?

[David @ May 7th 2008 8:12AM]

gave tomo's mom a 10 minute boot time.

[zedster @ May 7th 2008 10:16AM]

10 min boot time? vista sp1 must really be faster

[Velorium @ May 7th 2008 11:46AM]

Because the language processing portion of our brains isn't as slow as yours to realize that you typo-ed "the" versus "they" and made up a type of tree known to you only as "fir them"

[Robert Abramson @ May 7th 2008 6:45PM]

why not stripe the data on the microsd cards, raid-0 style?

[happy_penguin @ May 7th 2008 12:21PM]

When those capacities double and the prices halve I'm in.

[macserv @ May 7th 2008 3:43PM]

Well, I'll be damned... an article about SSDs with actual pricing details!

[Yuriy @ May 7th 2008 4:30PM]

who care about - its external anyway.....

[Catsceo @ May 7th 2008 8:09PM]

Why do these have to be external? They look like they are internal anyway.

[jbrianskog @ May 8th 2008 12:36PM]

I tried the Addonics Quad-CF PCI card in two different systems. In both systems the RAID config app would lock up when trying to create a RAID set. I tried completely different UDMA CF cards; no luck. I didn't try a new Quad-CF card though: too peeved.

Then I tried making a RAID0 set using four Addonics CompactFlash-to-SATA cards; no luck. Despite the Addonics site saying the cards were the fastest CF adapters ever, my system would hang for like 5 minutes every time a card was accessed. I successfully created a RAID0 set but the access time delay was magnified by soooooo much I couldn't stand it.

The CompactFlash-RAID0 dream is really just a nightmare. I see people suggesting it in forums all the time but no one that's actually done it. DON'T TRY IT.