Coming soon: 500gb SSD!

Geckovich · 18 Dec 2008 at 18:49

Full details here: http://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/press_releases/2008/memy_08_550.jsp

Does this excite anyone else? Will it be affordable by mid/late 09? Who knows?

John24 · 19 Dec 2008 at 08:59

Very exciting yes. Japans Toshiba invested in Mtron earlyer this year (interesting read) so their certainly serious about SSD`s.

Can`t wait for 09.

Geckovich · 19 Dec 2008 at 10:26

John24 said:
Very exciting yes. Japans Toshiba invested in Mtron earlyer this year (interesting read) so their certainly serious about SSD`s.

Can`t wait for 09.

Should be good. I'm on the verge of upgrading my drives for something roomier/faster/quieter, these articles are enough to temporarily stave off the upgrade bug.

Duff-Man · 19 Dec 2008 at 14:20

Excellent

If these offer performance similar to the intel MLC drives, then I will be happy.

As for size, well for me HDDs are fine for storage. I want a faster drive for the OS, boot applications, and games. I think 160Gb should be sufficient for those purposes

John24 · 19 Dec 2008 at 17:36

With an SSD for the OS and a single HDD (WD6400AAKS) for data I`m not drowning in the noise from HDD`s, it`s supprising how much quieter the PC is without the HDD spinning though.

Couple that with fast access time and reasonably priced, higher capacity SSD`s can`t come soon enough.

drak3 · 19 Dec 2008 at 18:37

How many years your data will be safe with these though?

I got 10 year old HDDs I occasionally fire up to prevent them locking up and they are still going strong.

John24 · 19 Dec 2008 at 19:13

Can`t find any data retention figures for the Toshiba`s but they maybe mtron`s underneath which are listed as 10 years at 25℃.

I`d probably still use HDD`s for backups though untill SSD`s have more high capacity real world usage.

Geckovich · 19 Dec 2008 at 19:37

I read somewhere it was 1,000,000 hours usage (about 100 years) but I cant remember where. Although at that point for personal use you'd be unlikely to be about to test it. How the hell do they guestimate these figures?

John24 · 19 Dec 2008 at 20:01

Geckovich said:
I read somewhere it was 1,000,000 hours usage (about 100 years)

That`s MTBF or Mean Time Before Failure, it differs from data retention. I beleive the first is operational time and the second shelf life.

Mtron`s MTBF are 1,000,000 hours too.

Can`t say exactly how they arive at these figures, I think it`s partly based on the chip makers figures. Which you could ask again how they get them!

Luxor · 19 Dec 2008 at 20:02

Nice, looking forward to these, especially at that size

TheRedZealot · 19 Dec 2008 at 20:09

It depends on the price though.

John24 · 19 Dec 2008 at 23:08

Yeah for a data drive the price has to be right to switch to SSD, I don`t mind spending the extra £ per gig for a small OS drive but that premium has to come down for large data drives. Otherwise it gets unobtainably expensive.

Even at the 240/200 speed level.

Arcane · 20 Dec 2008 at 13:08

Just seen this, it seems micron have found a way to achieve an extended lifespan of SSD's, they're claiming 1 billion write cycles.

siuko · 20 Dec 2008 at 13:11

I would be much more interested in cheaper lower capacity SSD's myself.

Something like 2 x 80Gb High Speed SSD's in Raid 0 would be fantastic performance wise

But for a reasonable price!