Toshiba 512Gb Solid State Drives
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Toshiba announced last week that they been working hard on creating a new compact, memory technology called solid state drives (SSD). This technology is a lot like SD-cards people use today in their digital cameras or computers, however those are limited at about 8Gb. SSD will allow much more space to be put into a small, card-like drive about 2-inches in size.
How much space is it capable of? Toshiba is working on a whopping 512-gigabyte SSD, ‘ more than my current laptops hard drive! This technology is very significant; because of its massive amount of space and its minuscule size there are plenty of applications for it.
For one, my laptops hard drive is probably a source of weight, as it has a mechanical arm, it spins, makes noise, etc. An SSD would eliminate a lot of that excess. On top of that, its so small, we can probably have more than one. At 512gb, space at that point is ever expansive, 1Tb or 2Tb of space is easily achievable.
Another cool thing about SSD technology is that it has very long life-span. Toshiba has estimated that your SSD will last up to 1 million hours, or about a hundred years; not bad. Hard drives, due to their mechanical nature, can last a couple of years (its very varied however), certainly not forever.
Like I usually say, with everything good comes some downside. SSD will be very expensive as it is an expanding technology, and its new. For a few years, it will cost a couple hundred dollars to have an SSD over a normal hard drive. But, once its cheap enough for a majority of people, we could see a phasing out of traditional hard drives!
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