A-DATA Announces 384GB SSD

A-DATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of DRAM modules and Flash products, recently announced the list of products that they will be exhibiting at the largest IT fair, CeBIT 2009. During the event next month in Hannover, Germany, A-DATA will unveil a variety of products with state-of-the-art technology and eye-catching design. The most interesting product for notebook users is a 384GB solid state drive (SSD).

This year, A-DATA will introduce the XPG 2.5" SSD with capacity up to 384GB, the biggest capacity by far. Solid state drives offer notebook users better performance and reliability compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDD). Pricing for the 384GB XPG 2.5" SSD isn't available at this time, but you can expect these high-capacity SSDs to be extraordinarily expensive.

 

SLC or MLC?

 

i guess mlc.

hoping for another price drop. but first: GET THEM INTO SHOPS. i don't believe any "introduction" anymore.

 

Many people may criticize it, but that is an AWESOME size i always liked 256GB but after seeing this i might hold out.....

 

384GB . . . nice. Current 2.5" drives max out at 500GB, so flash drives are getting close. Naturally, the price will be sky high on the SSDs vs. the hard drives.

I'm waiting until the SSD technology matures for a few more years at least. I'd like to see that SSD-optimized file system become more prominent.

 

I wonder what this thing costs. The 256GB drives cover a wide range depending on which controller is used. For example, the 256GB G.Skill Titan with a pair of JMicron controllers costs $550 while the recently released OCZ Vertex of similar size costs $930 (presumably because it uses an Indilinx controller rather than the infamous JMicrons). And of course there's Intel which charges prices which make it clear that their products are intended for businesses rather than individuals (unless said individuals have money to burn).

384 is only a 50% improvement on 256. Unless this thing is blindingly fast, I don't expect them to charge more than $1200 for it and with any luck at all, it should cost less than $600 by the end of this year.

 

How much does it cost? If it's <$500, it might be a worthy competitor to the 500GB 7200RPM HDDs.

 

flash drives already got 512GB. but not in payable ranges solidata x2-512

technically, flash allows more data in the 2.5" disk size than hard drives. one just can't pay it right nwo.

and new mlc got anounced with 4 bits per cell instead of 2, ergo 2x the storage at same size. 1tb 2.5" drives technically possible with ease, then..

i don't know directly about bigger 2.5" drives.

edit: 1tb 2.5" ssd already there. so the 5bit mlc should allow for 2tb 2.5" ssd's.

so the only thing where hdd's still win is price but there they still win by a big margin.

but as for me the difference between an ssd is like integrated graphics to special gpu card, it's worth the price.

 

PLus not to mention the soon to be coming Asus S121 comes with a 512gb SSD.