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Toshiba announces Solid State Drives (SSD) with MLC NAND Flash memoryBy Edward Distel, Monday 10 December 2007
Toshiba is entering the SSD market with a series of products featuring multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory.

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba announced on Monday that it is entering the Solid State Drive (SSD) market with a series of products featuring multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory.

Solid State Drives like MLC NAND flash memory are more expensive to manufacture than traditional platter-based hard drives, but operate faster and produce less heat, noise and moving parts than the standard HDD.

Toshiba's first three MLC NAND flash drives will come in three capacities (32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB) as well as three form factors (embedded module, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch drive enclosures).

The maximum read speed is expected to be 100 MB/s and the maximum write speed to be 40 MB/s with a SATA II interface and have an operating life of 1,000,000 hours. Toshiba expects to begin mass production of the devices in March 2008.
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