Off To The Solid State Races
It looks like it won't be very long at all until we start seeing computers with flash disk drives. The competition is suddenly red hot to see who can get to market with the biggest fastest Solid State Drive with more entering the sweepstakes every day.
Following similar announcements by Intel, Samsung, and SanDisk, flash- and module maker Super Talent has announced plans to manufacture 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch, and 3.5-inch drives next month.
The drives are "100 percent compatible" with conventional hard drives, according to Super Talent, and even include a standard Serial ATA interface. The drives will range in capacity up to 32 Gbytes for the 1.8-inch models, to 64 Gbytes for the 2.5-inch models, and up to 128-Gbytes for the 3.5-inch drives — double SanDisk's capacity points, and four times as large as Intel's notebook drives.
Pricing, however, remains a mystery. According to Joe James, marketing director for the company, Super Talent will announce the price of the new drives in April. "Why put out pricing now? The market may move 30 percent in a month," James said.
Interesting times for geeks. Quad-core processors and flash hard drives drives. These things are going to boogy. Everything I own is hopelessly outdated.
Geek Stuff | Gaius Wednesday, 14 March , 2007
By BubbaB, Thursday, 15 March , 2007 @ 1:59 pm
Ah, it’s good to be a high-tech engineer!