pureSilicon introduces world's first 1TB 2.5-inch SSD

Pretec may have laid claim to the title of world's fastest SATA SSD, but it looks like pureSilicon has a feather of its own to put in its cap, with it announcing what appears to be the world's first 1TB 2.5-inch SSD drive. You may want to think twice about holding out for one of these in your next laptop, however, as pureSilicon is apparently specifically pitching it as a more energy-efficient solution for servers, datacenters, and supercomputers, with four of the drives able to deliver 4TB in the same space as a standard 3.5-inch hard drive. According to pureSilicon's own benchmarks, the drives "approach" the maximum SATA II transfer speed of 300MB/s and, if 1TB is a bit excessive for your needs, the company also has drives ranging from 32GB to 512GB in its Nitro series. No word on price, naturally, but the drives will apparently be available sometime in the third quarter of this year.

[Sibuna Posted Jan 10th 2009 5:17PM]

Personally, I'm still gonna hold out for a few more years- every couple of weeks there seems to be faster and faster SSDs on the market, I'm gonna wait for the acceleration to slow a little bit (hopefully not very soon, epic fast hard drives would be awesome) to make the speed of my outdatedness a bit slower than it is now...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2009 3:50PM]

i need one of those .....
i just must have 1 tb macbook pro ........
please don't charge a kidney for it .....

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2009 3:52PM]

1TB 2.5" SSDs - is it wrong if I find myself somewhat aroused by this?

[Sibuna Posted Jan 10th 2009 5:18PM]

I hope not, I am too...

[Raul7 Posted Jan 10th 2009 4:54PM]

Damn! Big decisions! Should I get the 7200 RPM 500GB from Seagate, or wait the year for these to get closer in price?!

[Shinigami Posted Jan 11th 2009 2:01AM]

Amusing. Finally a proper size.
Now lets wait for the price drops :)

[ITRanger Posted Jan 11th 2009 5:34AM]

Great!

In three years time I'll be picking this up in a garage sale!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2009 7:25AM]

Hate to bust all you guys bubbles but Windows 7 supports 16 Terabyte files and over 100 exabyte drives.

[tylersmyler Posted Mar 2nd 2009 10:05PM]

That won't matter when we have the brontobyte drive

[SimplyAdam Posted Jul 27th 2009 5:00AM]

...and just how much porn do you have?!?

[Arkenklo Posted Jan 11th 2009 9:04AM]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Welcome, to the future.