Corsair is the latest company to join the suddenly crowded solid state drive (SSD) market, introducing a new 2.5-inch 128GB SSD it hopes will be used outside of the enterprise.
Corsair’s first SSD offering features 90 MB/sec read and 70MB/sec write speeds — both are midrange speeds, and isn’t anything spectacular — but the company is looking to just get its feet wet. The Corsair S128 is an MLC NAND-based SSD using a Samsung NAND flash memory controller — not a JMicron 602 controller — and Corsair hopes the drive will offer better, more reliable performance.
The Corsair 2.5-inch 128GB S128 SSD will cost around $330 and it’s unknown when the drive will be released. It can be found online through several retailers for pre-order.
The memory maker also plans to release another generation of SSD’s before the end of 2009, as the drives will have faster read/write speeds. Unconfirmed reports indicate Corsair is interested in topping Intel’s current speeds for 128GB SSD’s and may want to reach speeds of 400MB/s before the year is over.
SSD’s still may be too expensive for the average consumer, but more manufacturers are jumping on the bandwagon, which could lead to price drops in the future. Corsair is a well respected memory manufacturer, and its entrance into SSD may help draw more interest towards the developing technology.
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- Posted on: 22 Jan 09 16:37
And my company cares. And our customers care. The development of this technology (SSD drives) is going to be very interesting to folks in the enterprise world, and in time to desktop users as well. Sizes for SSD drives that have recently been announced have already reached parity with the largest and fastest SAS drives for the enterprise, and the SSDs outperform SAS by a wide margin. So keeping an eye on how the market develops is certainly interesting to me.
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