Toshiba rolls out 256GB laptop SSD, 32GB flash modules for netbooks

Get your flash here, red hot flash memory. Toshiba is now sampling its new 256GB SSD with a 120MB max read and 70MBps write via 3.0Gbps SATA interface -- not the fastest consumer SSD but not bad. This 2.5-inch slab measures just 3.0-mm thick and targets laptops looking to shed the 9.5-mm constraint presented by standard hard disks. Like Samsung, Tosh also announced new 8GB, 16GB and 32GB SATA flash modules aimed directly at the booming netbook market with speeds topping-out at 80MBps for reads and 50MBps for writes. All the drives feature MLC-based NAND which accounts for the less-than blazing SSD speeds. On the other hand, that should help keep the costs low when these things ship in quantity later this year.

[霽月瀛台 @ Sep 26th 2008 1:20AM]

how much?

[Evangelion @ Sep 26th 2008 1:28AM]

: o

[Uchiha Sasuke @ Sep 26th 2008 1:30AM]

The obligatory, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it"

[霽月瀛台 @ Sep 26th 2008 1:34AM]

I am pretty sure I can afford it.
The point is:
How much is it worth to you/me?

[Uchiha Sasuke @ Sep 26th 2008 2:11AM]

If it can guarantee to playback my pron collection faster, then it's priceless.

btw, since you can afford it, can you buy me one too or maybe three.

[霽月瀛台 @ Sep 26th 2008 2:54AM]

No. I can't find a reason to buy you one of this.
If you think is such a way, you should ask Bill Gates or some rich people around you to do you a favor.

[kojo87 @ Sep 26th 2008 1:28AM]

so how hard would it be to put one of those 32GB in a EeePC 701? or is that a dumb question?

[xValentine @ Sep 26th 2008 1:30AM]

That 256GB SSD will probably cost more than my eeepc

[LondonConsultant @ Sep 26th 2008 5:57AM]

If you want an SSD for your Eee PC, check these out instead:
http://www.memoryc.com/storage/solidstatedisk.html?Interface_Type=PCI+Express

[Almadi @ Sep 26th 2008 1:35AM]

I wish the day would come where laptops come with cart-like swappable hard disks, I mean you can have the operating system on the computer, but why do I have to pay for 80 GB minimum config when i only need 20 or 30, give us a choice.
And if you need to leave your computer somewhere and are afraid it might get swiped, at least you can take the HDD with you.

[xValentine @ Sep 26th 2008 3:13AM]

WAT?

[majortom1981 @ Sep 26th 2008 8:01AM]

I hope your kidding. MOst laptops have a screw or two and the hdd comes right out. well my dell does that anyway.

[霽月瀛台 @ Sep 26th 2008 1:39AM]

How about to have a PCMCIA CF card reader and a 32G CF card in your laptop?
So that you can take it out whenever you like.

[maveric101 @ Sep 26th 2008 2:07AM]

something people are missing: 3mm. holy crap. that means you could fit three in a standard hard drive slot! (or maybe two and some sort of RAID card, i dunno)

[loosely_coupled @ Sep 26th 2008 2:41AM]

No doubt this thing will find it's way into a micro-thin Macbook in the future...

[Patriks7 @ Sep 26th 2008 2:11AM]

Would it in theory be possible to fit two of these into a laptop which is standard for 9mm HDD? And if it would, could you connect them somehow?

[Luke D @ Sep 26th 2008 3:33AM]

Wow... who needs the iPod Classic anymore. Imagine an iPod Touch built around this.

[pball_inuyaha @ Sep 26th 2008 6:43AM]

I just wanna know what the average read/write speeds of IDE and SATA hdds are. Cause I know IDE maxes out at 130 Mb/s but what do the drives actually work at?

Cause If SSDs are way faster than IDE I'd be happy since I'm running mostly IDE drives still.

[Ogo @ Sep 26th 2008 7:28AM]

I have always felt 4,8,16GB netbooks were offering too little space.

32GB will sell well in netbooks.

[Kevin @ Sep 26th 2008 12:22PM]

Man the technology is ALMOST at the point where I want to jump in and buy... Just get that 256MB SSD a BIT faster and get the price under $500 and I'll go buy it. I'm thinking 9 months...