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A-DATA's 512GB Laptop SSD Launched at CeBIT

Posted 03/06/09 at 11:02:23 AM  by Paul Lilly

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A-DATA this week launced its 512GB XPG 2.5-inch solid state drive (SSD), which it claims is the highest capacity SSD to date. The new drive will be pitched to both laptop and desktop users.

Balancing capacity with performance, A-DATA says its 512GB XPG reads data at up to 230MB/s and writes up to 160MB/s. By comparison, Intel's highly touted X-25M boasts read and write speeds of up to 250MB/s and 70MB/s, respectively, giving A-DATA's a sizable paper-spec advantage in write speeds and a slight disadvantage in read bandwidth.

The new drive comes enclosed in a "dashing, durable, lightweight aluminum casing" and boasts a shock resistance rating of 1500G/0.5ms. In other words, it could probably survive an accidental drop or three, even if the rest of your laptop doesn't.

No word yet on pricing or availability.

Image Credit: A-DATA

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TAGS: mobile, notebook, laptop, storage, A-Data, hardware, ssd, solid state drive, cebit, 512gb
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avatarwww.computorial.blogspot.com

Submitted by computorial on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 9:56am

www.computorial.blogspot.com

It is exactlly on the contrary in fact.

SSD have long had problems writing small data files, especially random files. One of the prime example was jMicron Controler A version (now revised to B), which basically 90% of all SSD vendors used. Intel changed this with it's own 10-channel support controller.

Now thing are changing fast. More storage, faster transfers, better controllers and lower prices are coming rapidly. You can get solid SSD for $100 US, though with a small capacity.

 

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avataryeah things are chaning bur

Submitted by nekollx on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 10:21am

yeah things are chaning bur SSDs still have one huge herdle to get over, the "it will work for 10 years then go to read only"

 

though to be fair i dont think most plater drives are used for 10 years but the idea they COULD is a major point in theor favor against the average consumer.

 

Heck my family pc just died and its only 6 years old, the HDs are probably still good but everything is going to be replaced and the data transfered to new HDs soon so even if they were SSDs the average user would probably still never see its end of life.

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avatarSSDs read write speeds are

Submitted by comptech08 on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 9:22am

SSDs read write speeds are great for small files, but when large files get involved its faster to go with the plate disks.  That is going to have to change before i think about getting a SSD

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avatarGot any data to back that up?

Submitted by roninnder on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 10:36am

Do you have any data to back that up?  In my experience the SSD's work faster with all files.  The performance difference is actually even greater with large files, since platter disks performance decreases the longer the transfer runs.

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