Toshiba Corp. and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., its subsidiary in the Americas, today announced their entry into the emerging market for NAND Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) with a series of products featuring multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory. Offered in a range of form factors and capacities, Toshiba’s solid-state drives are designed primarily for notebook PCs. They will be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show next month.
Moving NAND-based storage architecture forward, Toshiba’s first solid-state drives offer three capacities: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB, in three form factors: an embedded module, and 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch drive enclosures. SSDs realize lower power consumption, a faster boot time, higher reliability, improved performance and no mechanical sound compared to hard disk drives, but market penetration has been held back by low densities and high prices.
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