Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive

designperfection9 writes "Toshiba said Thursday that it will show off a new line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD. The drive is based on a 43 nanometer Multi-Level Cell NAND and claims to offer a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebooks as well as gaming and home entertainment systems."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Price

[Yvan256]

You can't afford it.

Re:Terrible Article

[UnknowingFool]

The article repeats itself about 3 times on one page.

Apparently slashdot editors.
Apparently slashdot editors.

Re:MythTV

[Daimanta]

"I currently run my computer system off solar panels. They (SSDs) consume less power as compared to systems that have hard disks. FYI, I live deep in the country."

Well, I etch my data into massive stone tables. FYI, I live even deeper in the country.

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[Archangel Michael]

Moses? Is that you?

Re:MythTV

[vertinox]

The only upside that I can see to a spinning disc would be noise, and if you're watching TV, how could you hear it?

I watch silent films you insensitive clod!

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[morgan_greywolf]

You have stone tables? Damn are you lucky! I live much, much deeper in the country than you, apparently. We have to use sticks to etch our data into the sand. Unfortunately, every time it rains, we lose everything. So we have memorize the data, and re-etch it after the rainy season.

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[blhack]

Well I release butterflies into the atmosphere. The flapping of their wings changes the flow of the eddy currents in the upper atmosphere. These cause momentary pockets of higher-pressure air to form, which act as lenses that deflect incoming cosmic rays, focusing them to strike the drive platter and flip the desired bit..

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[alta]

I live much, much deeper in the woods than you. We have yet to evolve sufficiently to maintain those so called memories. We are destined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

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[morgan_greywolf]

So you're from Texas?

Re:Price

[Anonymous Coward]

hooray!! you know a very popular acronym!
make sure to pat yourself on the back you uber-elite.

Re:Price

[Bandman]

Depends on the lap. I've gotten a 12 drive AX100 on my lap before. Hurt like hell, but hey, you deal with that sometimes.

Re:And the cost is what?

[ColdWetDog]

See, now look what you've done. You've been modded 'Offtopic'

The first rule of Moderation is you don't talk about Moderation.

Re:Random read/write?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well maybe they shouldn't do it that way.

Re:It may say 512GB now

[maugle]

Considering how they seem to be able to define the units whatever way they like, I wonder if a hard drive company could get away with this:

New 6TB* Hard Drive!
Only $250!


*1TB = 10GB

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[TheRaven64]

Ah, an EMACS user.