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Product category: Memory Devices and Modules
News Release from: Toshiba Electronics Europe | Subject: MLC NAND SSDs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 03 April 2008

Solid-state drives are made with MLC
Flash

Toshiba SSDs achieve overall PC benchmark scores better than 5400 and 7200rev/min HDDs and comparable to selected SATA SLC NAND SSDs.

Toshiba has begun mass production of its first multilevel cell (MLC) NAND-Flash-based solid-state drives The initial models to begin shipping this month are 128Gbyte drives in a lightweight, 15g embedded module form factor

The first customer for these drives will be the PC Division of Toshiba Japan.

To achieve performance levels of 100Mbyte/s read and 40Mbyte/s write in these first generation drives, Toshiba used a SATA II interface and an original MLC controller supporting fast read-write speed, parallel data transfer, and wear-leveling.

As a result, Toshiba SSDs achieve overall PC benchmark scores better than 5400 and 7200rev/min HDDs and comparable to selected SATA SLC NAND SSDs.

The SSD drives excel in Windows Vista boot speed, application loading, general usage and virus scan.

compared with hard disk drives, SSDs realise a number of advantages that address needs in the mobile computing market for performance, ruggedness, and lightweight, compact form factors.

Toshibas 64Gbyte MLC NAND SSD embedded module is also ready for mass production.

Additional models in 1.8 and 2.5in drive enclosures are scheduled to sample next month.

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