Solid State dives may grow to 128Gb
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IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a fast, quiet, solid-state drive for your laptop, you will soon have several more options. In early 2008, Toshiba will begin manufacturing fl ash-based solid-state drives, which the company promises will off er faster boot times and lower power consumption than current hard-disk models do. Initially the drives will be available in capacities of 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. High prices for fl ash memory have limited adoption of solid-state drives so far, but industry observers expect Toshiba and other storage manufacturers (such as Samsung) to ramp up production, which may lower prices and spur wider use. Supposedly, solid-state drives are more durable than hard disks, too. Production of 1.8 and 2.5 inch SATA drives will begin in May. Toshiba is quoting a 100-megabytes-per-second maximum read speed and a 40-MBps maximum write speed, fi gures that are right in line with the speeds of most desktop hard drives.
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