Thursday, April 9th 2009
Super Talent Announces World’s First Commercially Available 512 GB 2.5-Inch SSD
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced that it is now shipping the MasterDrive RX family of Solid State Drives (SSDs) in capacities up to 512 GB.
The MasterDrive RX features Super Talent's proprietary RAIDSSD Technology to enable extremely fast sequential read and write speeds. The MasterDrive RX with MLC NAND Flash comes in 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB densities and is rated for a maximum sequential read speed of 230 MB/sec and a maximum sequential write speed of 160 MB/sec. The MasterDrive RX with SLC Flash comes in 128 GB and 256 GB densities and is rated for a maximum sequential read speed of 230 MB/sec and a maximum sequential write speed of 200 MB/sec.Jeremy Werner, senior product marketing manager at Super Talent, stated "The MasterDrive RX is the latest product utilizing our patented RAIDSSD Technology. This product is great! From a performance standpoint it's like having two SSDs in the space of one, and it extends our standard 2.5" SATA-II product line to include a 512GB SSD." The 512GB MasterDrive RX retails for under $1500.
All these products are designed to be compatible with all known operating systems including Windows, Linux, and OSX. Super Talent backs the SLC versions with a 3-year warranty and the MLC versions with a 2-year warranty.
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Super Talent
The MasterDrive RX features Super Talent's proprietary RAIDSSD Technology to enable extremely fast sequential read and write speeds. The MasterDrive RX with MLC NAND Flash comes in 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB densities and is rated for a maximum sequential read speed of 230 MB/sec and a maximum sequential write speed of 160 MB/sec. The MasterDrive RX with SLC Flash comes in 128 GB and 256 GB densities and is rated for a maximum sequential read speed of 230 MB/sec and a maximum sequential write speed of 200 MB/sec.Jeremy Werner, senior product marketing manager at Super Talent, stated "The MasterDrive RX is the latest product utilizing our patented RAIDSSD Technology. This product is great! From a performance standpoint it's like having two SSDs in the space of one, and it extends our standard 2.5" SATA-II product line to include a 512GB SSD." The 512GB MasterDrive RX retails for under $1500.
All these products are designed to be compatible with all known operating systems including Windows, Linux, and OSX. Super Talent backs the SLC versions with a 3-year warranty and the MLC versions with a 2-year warranty.
28 Comments on Super Talent Announces World’s First Commercially Available 512 GB 2.5-Inch SSD
That just caused cancer on my eyes...
www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535&p=6
30G
OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Retail
or the 60gb one
Im lost when it comes to currency conversion, but $1500us is a lot of money.
Great read/write speeds for such a large SSD. Seems like a good product to look into.
I seen the Intel 25-M for $1500au with only 160Gb and that gave me a heart attack.
I think its mainly the Americans that are usually the ones spending money like their life depended on it. Because SSD's are still way overpriced in the UK/Europe. Prices have gone up for almost EVERYTHING.
RAID is much cheaper and gives you more space.
The MLC versions are more than likely just copies of the already available OCZ Apex, G.Skill TITAN, and Patriot Warp V3 SSDs, using two JMicron JMF602B controllers via internal RAID0.
Bleh. No thanks...
You ever tried copying/moving multiple files from a HDD at the same time? (say, copying 1 4GB ISO file while someone else is copying over the network) - it lags the hell out cause mehcanical drives can only read one sector at a time.
Are they worth it NOW? no. but soon... very soon.