Great performance boosts were expected from the solid state drives but until now they kind of failed to deliver, partly as they are the offsprings of some rather new technologies and partly because the associated software drivers are not really worth talking about. Even so, with their limited storage capabilities and not too good drives, the solid state storage devices are gaining some more ground and market acceptance and that may finally prompt manufacturing companies to lower their price and concentrate on improving their features.

Ridata is one of the hardware manufacturing companies that are trying to capitalize on the new devices and it just announced the launch of a brand new solid state drive that comes packed in the small form factor of 2.5 inch which is typical for a mobile storage device. The new Ridata made solid state drive comes with a nominal capacity of 32GB and it is aimed at the mobile computing sector, while coming with a MTBF (mean time between failures) of four million hours.

On the technical side of things, the new Ridata solid state drive looks good, but does not offer some outstanding features, as its listed data reading speed goes as high as 60MB per second while its write speed tops at 48MB per second. When compared to other currently available solid state drives from Samsung or Mtron, the Ridata product is the last to shine, but it is also the cheapest.

"Our new Ridata SSD offers exceptionally consistent high performance in all environments," said Advanced Media President Harvey Liu, who was cited by the news site dailytech. "Compared to a traditional HDD the Ridata SSD is smaller; uses half as much power; is ultra lightweight; offers incredibly fast boot and access times; and operates at a low temperature with no mechanically moving parts. It is the ideal HDD replacement for OEMs, ODMs and system integrators as well as consumers."

The new Ridata 32GB solid state drive will come to market in just a few weeks and it is expected to feature a price tag of around $400, while the 64GB model that is said to become available in November will come at a price tag of around $1000.