Thinnest 256GB SSD Drive Launched March 26, 2008

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US company, Super Talent, has launched what it’s claiming is the world’s thinnest 256GB solid state drive (SSD).

The snappily named FSD56GC25H uses an industry standard 2.5in hard drive form factor and a SATA-I interface, making it fully interchangeable with regular 2.5in SATA hard drives. The drive uses the company’s own stacking technology to fit the 256GB in a slim case measuring just 12.5mm thick – 40% thinner than rival 256GB SSDs, the company claimed.

The black case is made from a durable lightweight aluminium alloy and the drive supports blistering fast 0.1ms access times, a maximum of 65MB/sec sequential read speed and 50MB/sec sequential write speed. It can take a beating too, the company said, and is built to deal with up to 1600G of shock and 16G of vibration – around 5 times greater than typical hard drives.

“We designed this drive for applications that need rugged and reliable storage in a very compact form factor. This is the world’s smallest and thinnest 256GB SSD”, said Super Talent Marketing Director, Joe James.

Sadly, the drives are only available to OEMs so far and there’s no price. Not cheap would be a safe guess though.-Martin Lynch

[Super Talent]

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