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One of the biggest fault points in a computer is the hard drive. One of the slowest points in a computer is a hard drive. That’s because the hard drive is a physical device. It utilizes spinning platters that are slow and prone to failure. In laptops, hard drives suck because they are prone to vibrational damage. I’ve been posting a lot in the last few years about the rise of solid state drives (SSD). You want solid state drives to become cheap and accessible because they are vastly superior. Well, the price point to make SSDs ubiqutous seems to be just on the horizon. SuperTalent recently announced that they are releasing a $299 128GB SSD.
SSDs are faster, less prone to shock damage, and less power consumptive. Here are the specs on SuperTalent’s MasterDriveLX:
Endurance
Read Unlimited
Write
64GB 35.0 yrs @ 50GB write-erase/day
128GB 70.1 yrs @ 50GB write-erase/day
Performance
Sequential Read Rate 100 MB/sec (max)
Sequential Write Rate 40 MB/sec (max)
Access Time 0.1 ms
Reliability
MTBF +1,000,000 hours
Data Reliability Built-in EDC/ECC function
Data Integrity 10 years
Wear Leveling Algor. Patent Pending
Environmental
Operating Shock 1500G
Operating Vibration 16G
Operating Temp. 0°C to +70°C
Physical
Form Factor 2.5’’
*Capacity 64GB - 128GB
Dimension 69.85mm x 100.00mm x 9.50mm
SATA Interface Serial ATA-II
NAND Flash MLC
Power Supply 5.0Vcc ± 5%
Package Complete metal housing
::Check out SuperTalent’s Vibrational Test::
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