14 DAY TRIAL // This American company based in San Jose, California has been an active member of the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) which develops, among other things, the standards for DRAM memory.
Choosing to enter the Solid State Disk market is of no surprise, similar announcements were made by Intel, Samsung and Sandisk. The new lines of products brought to the public by Super Talent have a Serial ATA interface and come in the 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors. The manufacturer claims that this makes the products "100% compatible with conventional hard disk drives".
Available models include capacities ranging from 16GB and go up to 128GB. These drives are expected to have great reliability, Super Talent touting a 1.000.000 hours MTBF for them. However, their maximum sustained read/write rate is of, if I may say so myself, a mere 28MB/s. Sandisk's SSD counterpart goes to a staggering 67MB/s sustained read speed.
"This new generation of SSD drives delivers all the benefits of Flash based storage - rugged reliability, low power consumption and fast access speed. But we've engineered these drives to offer twice the data throughput at half the cost per gigabyte compared to the first SSD drives we introduced a year-ago," stated Joe James, Marketing Director at Super Talent Technology.
Yes, indeed the transfer rate of these drives has increased over the past couple of months, but I believe this to be a normal part of the computer industry's evolution. We have come a long way in a short period of time, thus experiencing something that may be called a "technological explosion". Not that it's a reason to complain or anything, it's just a little too much all at once, either you go with the flow or it will carry you away. So I guess that "surf's up dudes!"