Toshiba to make 128GB solid state drive
10 Dec 2007 | 07:25 GMT
Mass production under way
TOSHIBA SAID that it will mass produce solid state drives ranging in sizes of between 32 gigabytes to 128 gigabytes next year.
The 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch drives will be launched in May as part of a cunning plan to push solid state drives and force the current technology into signing its UB40.
Solid state drivers are fast, quiet and currently extremely expensive. So far they have only been seen in portable devices like tablet and Ultra-Mobile PCs and even then only in small sizes.
Currently, Samsung Electronics and Sandisk already make solid-state drives but the sizes of drives being talked about by Toshiba is new.
According to Reuters, Micron also has plans to enter the solid state drive market, with mass production early next year.
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