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Like a kid in a high-speed candy store, SuperTalent appears genuinely excited about all the modern enthusiast technologies that combine to make ultra-fast solid state drives possible. Such is the case with the company's new TeraDrive PT3 line of SSDs built around the SandForce 2200 processor and boasting a SATA3 interface and Double Data Rate, ONFi flash.
"The union of these three new technologies has forever changed the storage landscape," SuperTalent says. "Right out of the gate, this new generation SSD stretches well within the new found bandwidth promised by the SATA 3.0 bus and breaks the 500MB/s barrier in both read and write scores. The comparisons between SSDs and HDDs just became a littler hard to justify."
Welcome to the high-end side of the SSD pool, SuperTalent. The company's new TeraDrive PT3 line is available in 60GB (FTM06P325H), 120GB (FTM12P325H), 240GB (FTM24P325H), and 480GB (FTM48P325H) capacities and "begins shipping today!!!" No word on price, though you can view this benchmark video for free.
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aarcane
June 27, 2011 at 12:59pm
If the advances keep rolling out to the point that SSDs finally achieve faster speeds than harddrives at higher capacities, with greater read/write cycles and longer offline data retention, all at lower prices than hard-drives in a smaller package than traditional 3.5" hard-drives, we may soon replace both tape and spinning platter storage with new SSD based solutions for both. but until then, SSDs are still over-priced :)
This is all the more likely to happen if desktop hard-drive manufacturers keep making blunders liek AF drives (Advanced Format, it kills performance in nearly all data-intensive applications, and essentially LIES to the operating system about the underlying hardware in violation of existing standards)
Nimrod
June 27, 2011 at 2:32pm
I guess if you dont give a fly fucking about performance at all no matter what under any circumstance then yeah they might be over priced.
SleepyCatChris
June 27, 2011 at 10:14am
Er, isn't a "perfect storm" the worst possible thing that can happen? I thought the article was going to describe a potential disaster.
As in, "trying to combine these three technologies into one product has the potential to create a perfect storm that will cause complete loss of all data", that kind of thing.
thechipper
June 27, 2011 at 3:15pm
It's actually a perspective thing. This SSD product could be the storm that sinks the HDD ship. So to the HDD industry its bad news. To SSDs its good news.
I think the 3.0 drives are quite pricey but if you require the top end preformance that they offer then you really have no choice. It's just like any other component really. You want the black edition $1100 cpu that mildly outpreforms the $600 one that slightly outprefroms a $300 one then you are paying for marginal gains. Some people need that. Most don't. I don't know why that other guy is really upset about it.
Paul_Lilly
June 27, 2011 at 10:31am
Take it from the perspective of a hard drive maker trying to compete with solid state drives.
