Toshiba’s 512GB SSD - New Deffinition to SSD

Toshiba is the first company to introduce a 512GB SSD built on 43nm MLC NAND technology. Although Toshiba introduced its SSD line in December of 2007 and unveiled its first MLC 256GB SSD in September of 2008. Toshiba VP of Semiconductor Company Kiyoshi Kobayashi said in a statement, “The solid state drive market is evolving rapidly, with higher performance drives to meet market requirements, and differentiated product families targeted for appropriate applications. This new 43nm SSD family balances value/performance characteristics for its targeted consumer applications, through use of MLC NAND and advanced controller architecture.”

Toshiba targeted the notebook market with 512GB SSD as it has a traditional form factor of 2.5 inch. Besides 512GB SSD Toshiba also announced to produce 64GB,128GB and 256GB SSDs with 43nm MLC NAND Technology. Advanced MLC Technology increased the read/write speed, parallel data transfer rate and wear leveling a lot. The 512GB SSD has a read speed of 240MB per second and a write speed of 200MB per second. The devices also support AES encryption to protect data stored on it.