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Super Talent's faster flash

posted on 22 July 2008 14:33


Boosts SSD read speeds

Super Talent, which has been lagging behind competitor OCZ in the solid state drive (SSD) read performance stakes, has substantially boosted its MasterDrive products' read performance, doubling it in some cases.

Master Drive maximum read and write speeds for low capacity and high capacity products

Product   Description Old read/write speed   New (low cap) read/write speed  New (high cap) read/write speed

 DX

 2.5-inch SATA II SLC flash

 120/70 MB/sec

120/80 MB/sec

120/100 MB/sec

 KX  1.8-inch microSATA MLC flash

 120/40 MB/sec

120/60 MB/sec

120/80 MB/sec

 MX  2.5-inch SATA II MLC flash

 120/40 MB/sec

120/60 MB/sec

120/80 MB/sec

Joe James, Super Talent's Director of Marketing, said: "This is one improvement that will be well received by power laptop users.”

Low capacity means 15 and 30GB. High capacity means 60 and 120GB.

SLC - Single-level cell.

MLC - multi-level cell

MasterDrive SSDs are available now from NewEgg and Newbiiz.

[Martin Edwards, news writer.]

 


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