Super Talent makes MasterDrive MX SSDs slightly faster

With the prices of SSDs sinking daily, Super Talent is hoping to grab a few eyes by offering faster drives at comparably low price points. According to a data sheet posted up on the firm's website, its MasterDrive MX line of SSDs now features a maximum read rate of 120MB/sec, while write speeds range between 60MB/sec (15GB and 30GB) and 80MB/sec (60GB and 120GB). Reportedly, the drives used to boast write speeds of 40MB/sec. A minor boost, sure, but a welcome increase all the same.

[Via DailyTech]

[alvaro @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:48PM]

great!!!! finally here

[CAHLITO @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:49PM]

why are the prices of SSD dropppng so much?

[kjb434 @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:34PM]

It's called capitalism.......

Take a basic economics course and you should learn it.

The production has been ramped up on the devices and the market is being flooding with lots of options for consumers. With all the choices, the competition is forcing the price to drop.

[George @ Jul 22nd 2008 6:30PM]

Also, it's probably economies of scale. After the device is manufactured a certain number of times, the cost of R&D stops overshadowing the cost of producing the device. So when R&D money is all recouped, you'll be at whatever they choose above production cost.

Of course whatever they choose is influenced by competition and stuff like that.

[ryan @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:53PM]

40MB/sec to 60MB/sec and 80MB/sec is minor??

[Preda @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:10PM]

yeah, a 50% -> 100% increase is minor.

color me confused.

[neofolklore @ Jul 23rd 2008 8:15AM]

its just because these are slow SSDs and suck balls compared to VelociRaptors and that other much faster form of SSDs

get what you pay for.

[digitallysick @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:54PM]

i didn't see the price point *looks around*

[retro77 @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:57PM]

I think we need to start seeing some real world testing here on different OS's:
Linux [probably Ubuntu]
Vista
OS X

Preferably with all the latest OS patches....

[BlowURmindBowel @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:21PM]

60GB $335 FTM60GK25H (read 120mb/s write 80mb/s)
30GB $495 FTD30GK25H (read 120mb/s write 80mb/s)
30GB $210 FTM30GK25H (read 120mb/s write 80mb/s)
32GB $770 SSD32GB25 (read 60mb/s write 45mb/s)
128GB $3,049 FSD28GC25M (read 60mb/s write 45mb/s)
120GB $495 FTM20GK25H (read 120mb/s write 80mb/s)

WTF!?!?!?!

The newer ones are typically less than half the price of the older ones (128 v. 120; 120 is 1/6th the price!) and the newer ones have faster read/writes...

This is all from newegg btw.

[rektide @ Jul 22nd 2008 3:02PM]

SuperTalent is one of my favorite brands for exactly this reason: they are never the best name in a market, but they are always very competitive on features/performance and the leader on price & value. The 8GB SuperTalent DH USB flash drive is good example; stellar performance and rediculously cheap price, as per Xbitlabs USB thumb-drive round-up: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/4gb-usbflash-roundup_9.html

Thanks for posting the prices! Thats very helpful, and I wish the article authors had taken not only the time & care to retrieve prices, but also to compare them against old prices. It really shows what the SSD buzz is all about, seeing such a dramatic shift!

[Guillermo @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:22PM]

How about a portable "hard drive" SSD? I guess it would be the same as a massive thumb drive just faster?

[BlowURmindBowel @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:23PM]

If you follow the read link, click on newegg near the center of the resulting page. That is a link to all of the super talent drives on newegg.

[Rick Huizinga @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:25PM]

Great, I wonder if they can make these suckers fail any faster too! Mine completely died after 5 weeks, and it would appear this is happening to most of these drives according to the product reviews over at NewEgg.

[BDK @ Jul 22nd 2008 1:44PM]

Here is a link to newegg reviews on the 120GB model:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820609304
See if you notice a trend in the reliability of these.

[black @ Jul 22nd 2008 8:59PM]

Well its an MLC SSD. That would explain the horrendous reliability of the drive.

[Janet L. @ Jul 22nd 2008 2:39PM]

@ Guillermo

Why would u wanna carry a big ass drive with you?

Just get one of those Titanium USB dog tag pendants from Olinari. I got the 4gb version and it's more than enough for everyday stuff.

http://olinari.com/olndt2.html

[scott @ Jul 22nd 2008 2:56PM]

those things are gaudy as hell. ick.

[m.edgar @ Jul 22nd 2008 4:23PM]

And still all I want is a cheap 32gig (hell, 16 gig would do!) SSD for my OS partition :(

[Pochi @ Jul 22nd 2008 5:59PM]

AMEN. I just want a 16GB, cheap ass drive for Vista. Everything else can go on another.

[neofolklore @ Jul 23rd 2008 8:16AM]

and then you get pwned by the pagefile.