Buffalo solders up 32GB and 64GB SSDs for Eee PC

Those fine folks at Buffalo are working on 32GB and 64GB PCI-E SSDs for the Eee PC 901 (and others, we're guessing), to be released in September. That's all well and good, but what's even more exciting are the price points: 32GB will be retailing for around 16,800 yen (about $157 US) while the 64GB will go for 33,600 yen ($313 US). Sure, a storage device the same price as your computer is never ideal, but with SSD prices continuing to plummet -- as evidenced by this nearly-wallet-friendly pair -- they should be in striking distance before long.

[Via jkkmobile]

[Connor Murphy @ Jul 28th 2008 8:41PM]

Buffalo solders... dreadlock rasta?

[v3xx @ Jul 28th 2008 8:45PM]

wow that 32 gig looks pretty nice. this time next year im sure i'll have a 256gb at about $200 or less.

[Kaiser-Machead @ Jul 28th 2008 8:58PM]

Lol this wins the internet

[The_Steven @ Jul 28th 2008 10:14PM]

... Coming to America...Fighting on arrival.... Fighting for survival.....

[Flashpoint @ Jul 28th 2008 10:24PM]

I'm certain that we will all see more mini netbooks pop up once SSD's become more affordable.

The Chinese are gonna make ripoff after ripoff of whichever is the top model by simply copying the drive's at high speed to get the operating system and whatever installed software there will be.

[OneLove @ Jul 29th 2008 12:05PM]

Yes I!

[karmaghost @ Jul 28th 2008 9:05PM]

Buffalo "SOLDERS".... I see what you did there... or maybe not.

[GatgetMan @ Jul 28th 2008 9:19PM]

Yeah, like they solder the chips to the board.... you are looking WAY too deeply into things...

[Ryan Trevisol @ Jul 28th 2008 9:39PM]

I want to believe they're that clever, but I think "Buffalo soldiers forward with . . ." would have been the best way to do it.

[p-day @ Jul 29th 2008 3:13AM]

yeah its a movie but idk if they meant to

[sien @ Jul 28th 2008 9:12PM]

Believe it or not....those SSDs are for SONY netbook....

[EagleEyez @ Jul 28th 2008 9:12PM]

hallelujah!!!

[ShadowKain @ Jul 28th 2008 9:16PM]

Plummeting Prices? Horray for mass production!

[Carl Vitullo @ Jul 29th 2008 12:40AM]

wow, $157 is actually not bad.
i mean, it's still really expensive, but wasn't that like, $300 like a month ago?

[Paul @ Jul 29th 2008 12:56AM]

drool....I've been dreaming of affording one of these for over 15 years.

[Midnightblade @ Jul 29th 2008 1:14AM]

Are these NAND Flash or are they the type of flash storage which is used in USB drives? I heard that the 901's use the USB drive type flash which is much slower. 32GB USB Flash drives can be found for less than $100, so if these aren't NAND then the only real draw is that they're mini PCI-e.

[B.C. @ Jul 29th 2008 6:08AM]

This is cool... but are any of them working on a flash HD that would slide into the PCM CIA slot?
I don't know the pro's or con's of mounting a HD there, but I have a SD reader in my PCM slot that works great...

Are there any reasons not to use that slot for a HD?

[Brett @ Jul 29th 2008 7:15AM]

we are sending one to JKKmobile for testing, check JKKmobile.com for an update soon after they become available here in Japan!

-Brett
(Conics.Net)

[Mike @ Jul 29th 2008 8:17AM]

I made something like this a few months ago. I took apart a 4GB Cruzer Micro (which runs fine on the 3.3v supplied on the mini PCI-E) and etched and cut out a mini PCI-E shaped card. I have some important information automatically backed up to the flash in case my HD dies on me suddenly. I wonder if this card uses the USB to connect (like mine) or if it appears as an IDE/SATA controller through the PCI-E bus.

[Mike @ Jul 29th 2008 8:20AM]

SSD's are already available for expresscard slots. I've seen some old devices use PCMCIA flash drives. If you want PCMCIA like you say, and not expresscard, you could always get a large compactflash card and slide it in a cheap adapter.

[B.C. @ Jul 30th 2008 7:28AM]

Thanks for the tip. Just curious, what are differences in expresscard and PCMCIA? Do they use the same slot?

I'm just trying to gain some useful space in a couple older laptops without carrying around extra HD's, cords and the like.