Toshiba bolsters 32nm mSATA SSD lineup, your future netbook nods approvingly

We like to think of 'em as the SSDs for the little guys, and we couldn't be happier to hear that they're getting bigger and bigger in terms of capacity. Toshiba introduced the first solid state drives to use the mini-SATA interface back in September of '09, and while those 32nm units were made available in 30GB and 62GB sizes, the pack rats weren't satisfied. Now, the company has introduced a 128GB flavor with an mSATA interface, offering up a maximum sequential read speed of 180MB/s and a maximum sequential write speed of 70MB/s. The 128GB modules are said be one-seventh the volume and one-eighth the weight of 2.5-inch SSDs, and in case that's not enough, the third-generation HG SSDs will bring nearly twice the aforesaid speed and will ship in capacities of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. Hit the source link for all the dirt... except for the pricing, naturally.

[revoltracers Posted Jan 9th 2010 8:55AM]

But are the Atoms up to the job?

[Kurian Posted Jan 9th 2010 10:59AM]

@revoltracers

Considering that they can't even play a 1280x720 Xvid, I'm going to have to say no.

[j3oomerang Posted Jan 9th 2010 9:28AM]

I'm waiting for the day we get 64-128gb of crazy fast on board memory, which is plenty for an OS and apps partition. Then a laptop wouldn't even need a separate hard drive; remove the VGA out, modem, and optical drive as well and I would be very proud of buying such a laptop.

[j3oomerang Posted Jan 9th 2010 9:31AM]

@j3oomerang
on board SSD*

[saturnblackhole Posted Jan 9th 2010 10:08AM]

@j3oomerang yeah the 56k modem really needs to be removed who the hell uses dial up anymore? make some space for more batteries.

[Sibuna Posted Jan 9th 2010 11:27AM]

@saturnblackhole Actually... my grandparents just spent over a grand on a nice new laptop, yet still use dialup. There is literally no difference in the internet performance from their 10 year old computer and this one.

[Philip Han Posted Jan 9th 2010 12:38PM]

I have two questions:

-Why aren't SSD's plagued by write/read corruption like on SD/CF cards?

-The furthest middle left SSD, is that some form of mini PCI? If so... wouldn't I be able to pop it in my laptop, install W7 on that partition and then install most programs on my HDD?! That would be GENIUS!!!

[Down8 Posted Jan 9th 2010 12:47PM]

"...are said be one-seventh the volume..."

...are said TO be one-seventh....

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