In case you haven’t noticed the storage market is like a black hole; there’s just no end in sight to where capacity will max out. Kingston announced today their 256GB DataTraveler 300 USB flash drive. That’s a two fold increase in capacity from last month’s announcement and almost double the price at $900.
The transfer write speed maxes out at 10Mbps while read time is 20Mbps, which means you’ll be killing more than a few hours of your life if you hope to transfer the drive’s entire contents to your computer.
No word on a release date, but it looks like it’s heading to the UK first.
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As the Netbook battle heats up so does the need for larger sized SSDs. Today, Toshiba unveiled their 256GB, 2.5-inch solid state drive. It’s backed by a multi-level cell controller which provides ‘higher read-write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling to optimize performance, reliability and endurance’. So, expect a maximum read speed of 120Mbps and maximum write speed of 70MBps, via a SATA 3.0Gb per second interface.
This isn’t World record setting but with more players upping the SSD capacities, we should see significant price breaks next year. Price for Toshiba 256GB SSD is unknown, but expect them to hit a Netbook near you late Q4 2008.
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