Mtron, a manufacturer of Solid State Drive (SSD) products in South Korea, announced today that they have completed the development of new PRO 7500 SSDs for industrial purpose, and will be launching them in June. Mtron's new PRO 7500 series will come in both 2.5 and 3.5-inch form factors and support the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface. Read and write speeds for these drives are 130MB/s and 120MB/s respectively, making them the fastest solid state drives currently on the market. Finally, Mtron will offer the 7500 series in capacities from 32GB to 128GB. In addition, Mtron informed it will be exhibiting their new drives at DS Expo/10th Data Storage Expo in Tokyo (May 14-16, 2008) and CeBIT Australia 2008 in Australia (May 20-22, 2008).

Imation Corp., a worldwide leader in removable data storage, today announced the availability of its Solid State Drive (SSD) solutions. Imation brings its global marketing, distribution and technical service expertise to its solid state drives that are powered by Mtron, a technology powerhouse in SSD solutions. Imation's SSD portfolio includes the MOBI 3000 Series for high performance end users, and the PRO 7000 Series, ideal for enterprise, corporate and IT infrastructure applications with extreme performance needs. The products use industry-leading solid state storage and controller technology to accelerate the performance of high availability enterprise applications.

South Korean SSD manufacturer Mtronstorage Technology announced today that it has completed the development of a new 1.8-inch ZIF-type SSD (Solid State Drive) for laptops. Mtron's new SSD with Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash memory supports PATA (ZIF-type) interface and has a maximum reading speed of 120MB/s and writing speed of 100MB/s, which is more than 6 times faster than the current 1.8-inch HDDs. Mtron expects to ship the new SSD in capacity of up to 128GB. Worldwide premiere for these drives is set for April this year.

The all time problem constantly SSD's has always been speed since even though reading data from any point on a flash drive should be faster than HDD's real-world performance it isn't. However MTRON's latest MSD-S2516 SSD promises to change all that since in an review by MaximumPC it surpassed even the 10.000rpm Western Digital Raptor.
Mtron is currently offering only a 64GB model while a 128GB model will be released in 2008. The 16GB model costs around 1000$ while the 64GB SATA drive model costs at around 3000$. Very high prices indeed but you get what you pay for and that is the fastest drive around.