Toshiba prepares 32GB, 64GB and 128GB SSDs The solid-state disc (SSD) marketplace is starting to ignite upward and an original musician is willing to hurl its hat into the gang. Toshiba today announced that it will establish an original lineup of multi-level cubicle (MLC) NAND-based SSDs next year. The MLC NAND chips used in the drives are built on a 56nm manufacturing procedure and permit for learn speeds of 100MB/sec and publish speeds of 40MB/sec. The publish learn are not rather aggressive with the latest generation of SSDs from Samsung and Mtron while the publish speeds are far behind.

Samsung's newest SSDs provide write speeds of 100MB/sec and Mtron SSDs loom around the 90MB/sec score. Toshiba will establish its original SATA II SSDs in capacities of 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. All will be accessible in 1. 8 or 2. 5" form-factors and will get an operating living of approximately one million hours. Toshiba expects to exhibit the drives at CES in January and production-level hardware will first be accessible during the best fourth of 2008. Production versions of the 128GB effort, however, aren't expected until May 2008.

As is the case with most original SSD proclamation, there is no word on pricing for the Toshiba’s original SSDs. Prices have dropped as much players have entered the marketplace, but prices have not go downward to the level were simple mortals can give to fall a 64GB SSD into their laptop. Hopefully for consumers, 2008 will be the “Year of the SSD” and will be accompanied by profound cost cuts as the engineering matures.