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Toshiba unveils a 43nm MLC SSD with 512GB of storage

Las Vegas (CA) – Toshiba said it will showcase a 512 GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive at next month’s Consumer Electronics show (CES). The 2.5” drive is likely to be the highest-capacity SSD when shown at the tradeshow, but the device will not go into production until the second half of next year.

Among the issues that some users have with SSDs are price and storage capacity. It’s easy to recognize that SSD perform better than a traditional HDD, but it’s very difficult to argue that the increased performance justifies the often many fold increase in price an SSD commands over similar traditional HDDs.

Toshiba has addressed the easiest to defeat of the two concerns — storage capacity. Toshiba is the first company to introduce a 512GB SSD built on 43nm MLC NAND technology. The 512GB SSD uses a traditional notebook 2.5-inch form factor and is aimed at the consumer notebook space.

Alongside the 512GB SSD Toshiba has also announced other SSDs using the same 43nm MLC technology including SSDs with 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB of storage. All of the drives use advanced MLC controller technology, which allows them to achieve higher read/write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling.(more at- http://www.dailytech.com/Toshiba+Takes+Its+SSDs+to+512GB/article13719c.htm 

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