14 DAY TRIAL // Super Talent, one of the leading manufacturers of flash-based storage devices has just introduced what it likes to refer to as the “Dangerously Fast New SATA-II SSDs.” The company's new products have been designed to meet the requirements for faster and higher-capacity storage solutions based on the increasingly important flash technology.
As we mentioned in one of our articles of earlier today, the company's new fast SATA-II SSDs are part of the OX and PX MasterDrive series of drives, which will be offered in a 2.5-inch form factor. However, one of the most distinctive differences between the two series of SSDs is that OX is built using Multi Level Cell technology, while the PX series features Single Level Cell technology. In addition, these two series of drives deliver different performance levels in terms of maximum read and write speeds. While the OX series can deliver a 150MB/s read speed and 100MB/s write speed, the PX series goes all the way, to 170MB/s and 130MB/s, respectively.
The MasterDrive OX series will be offered in capacities ranging from 32GB to 128GB, while the PX series will only come in 32GB and 64GB capacities. The company also announced that the OX series will become available later this week with a street price of around $419.
SSDs are bound to become the standard storage solution, with technology enabling higher-capacity, faster and cheaper solid state drives. Intel has already started shipping its highly anticipated X18-M and X25-M SSDs, which are known to deliver impressive performance levels, compared with most of the other solid state drives on the market. On that note, it is generally believed that SSDs will reach 512GB, if not more, by the end of next year, while 750GB 2.5-inch hard drives will become a reality by sometime in mid-2009.
Currently, almost every major hard drive manufacturer out there has already released its own 2.5-inch 500GB hard-drive solution, so we can easily estimate that the 750GB target will be reached in the near future. Hitachi and Western Digital are planning to release their products by sometime next year, although no specific date for that has yet been made available.