SSD's grow up

Who wants big SSD's?

We do! We do!

Toshiba has announced the first 512GB SSD - bringing SSD's into the large capacity drive space.

The new drives will be based on NAND flash built on a 43nm process, and will come in 64/128/256/512GB capacities, and will be packaged as both SSD modules and in 1.8" and 2.5" drive formats.

The drives are supposed to run at up to 240MB/sec reads, 200MB/sec writes, which means they will be in the same performance ballpark as Intel's high speed SSD's.