Toshiba Announces 256GB SSD for your Netbook
Netbooks are neat little computers and are making internet tablets obsolete. The only problem with these little laptops is that, well, they’re little and that doesn’t allow for much in terms of power, memory, and hard drive space. Well, Toshiba has answered the call for the latter and will be making 256GB solid state drives. Pretty soon, spinning hard drives will likely be phased out in favor of more reliable, not to mention faster, SSDs. The Toshiba SSD is expected to have a read and write speed of 120MBps and 70MBps, respectively, and will use an SATA 3.0-Gbps interface. Small, lightweight, and power-packed, these drives are perfect for increasingly shrinking computers such as the Dell Mini 9 and Asus Eee PC.
Terrible article, these would be horrible for netbooks. Think about the key selling feature of a netbook: cost! If you were gonna get one, itd go in you macbook pro
Dear BGR, these are not for netbooks – they are in 2.5in form factor and designed for full laptops.
A range of 8GB to 32GB cheap and slower modules will be released for netbooks specifically. Full press release details here:
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2008_09/pr2602
We admire your site and hope this will help clarify things.
This isn’t a terrible article, sure it will they will be expensive but it’s just a matter of time before the price comes down.
Ryan: yeah but by then netbooks would be irrelevant