Toshiba Ships Thin 256GB Blade X-Gale SSDs

[exfileme]

Toshiba's new modules are for manufacturers only, however they should allow for thinner notebooks and tablets with bigger storage capacities.

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[nforce4max]

Took long enough and its a real shame that it is not in the normal retail market. >.>

 

[Randomacts]

If they can make it cheap enough that places don't charge an arm and a leg for it in laptops I'm all for it.

 

[kscr7]

thats small

 

[Darkerson]

Nifty. Hopefully it will become more mainstream as time moves on.

 

[aznguy0028]

[citation][nom]kscr7[/nom]thats small[/citation]
That's what she... nevermind.

 

[Nesto1000]

I wonder why Toshiba didn't implement them in their line of laptops?

 

[iam2thecrowe]

good idea, hard drives you can slot in like ram. Would be useful to make a 3.5" or 5 1/4"drive bay for desktops that allows these to be slotted in.

 

[User69]

There's speculation that manufacturers will use Toshiba's new SSDs to create MacBook Air clones running Microsoft's Windows platform.

Gotta love the bias!

 

[gramps]

Looks just like a couple of sticks of RAM (I suppose they're not really that much different).

Might need a few SSD slots on my next motherboard...

 

[v100]

this is the thing that kills Air's battery by 33%!!?

 

[formin]

SSD are going to start looking more and more like traditional RAM chips
Once they start using a wider bus the pins will be on the long side
and the data rates of future SSDs will prob cause ram to disappear

 

[dEAne]

SSD is now getting bigger now a days - the capacity not the size.

 

[nick8191]

I don't think we will be seeing too much of this next year - at least not in these higher storage ranges. The price of SSD isn't going down fast enough that I could imagine people flocking to buy laptops containing this technology (not to mention that most people don't know the difference between a SSD and a STD). From my experience, most people looking for smaller and slimmer laptops are also looking not to spend too much cash. It's a shame though, I have been using solid state drives in my PC's for a while now and the performance increase + noise reduction is simply amazing! I wish that this would become a mainstream solution sooner, but manufacturers are going to need to do better on pricing (whether or not that is possible at this time is a different story).

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Jeez, looks like sticks of RAM. I can see a lot of customers confused. "This is REALLLLLLLY expensive RAM, it must be good RAM."

"Why won't it fit in thee slot?!"

 

[requiemsallure]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]Jeez, looks like sticks of RAM. I can see a lot of customers confused. "This is REALLLLLLLY expensive RAM, it must be good RAM.""Why won't it fit in thee slot?!"[/citation]


comparing it to ram its probably really cheap in comparison $/Gb

 

[andrewfy]

There's an analysis over at the daily circuit that puts it in the perspective of Gigabytes per gram, comparing it to the 3.5" 3TB Western Digital as well as the 2.5" 640GB Seagate Momentus with surprising results.

 

[NightLight]

we are just a few steps away from having datarods

 

[andrewfy]

[citation][nom]formin[/nom]SSD are going to start looking more and more like traditional RAM chipsOnce they start using a wider bus the pins will be on the long sideand the data rates of future SSDs will prob cause ram to disappear[/citation]

Actually there's a good analysis over at the daily circuit from a couple days ago that compares DRAM to SSD that explains why this will probably never happen -

 

[eddieroolz]

Ah, so these are the ones in the Macbook Air. Hopefully someone makes a retail eSATA flash drive out of those!