Toshiba Delays 128GB Solid-State Notebook

[HardOCP News]

According to an announcement posted on Toshiba's Japanese Web site, the company has postponed the launch of the 128GB SSD Dynabook SS RX1 notebook.

The notebook was originally scheduled for general availability in April but will be delayed until June, according to Toshiba. Toshiba cited parts delays. It's not clear whether the delays are SSD-related, but Toshiba postponed the launch of a notebook last year with a 64GB SSD due to flash memory chip "procurement" delays.

 

[Ockie]

Just go buy a 128gb ssd and a toshiba notebook.... there.

 

[SPARTAN VI]

Hope it doesn't have anything to do with Seagate's threats..

Intel is expected to announce SSDs ranging up to 160GB this year. Samsung is expected to follow suit.

Awesome, I'm down for one of those.

 

[Living Weapon]

This is definitely the year of the SSD - we should finally see enough maturity that the write performance will start to be better than spinning disk (read performance is already awesome).

Of course prices for usable capacity will still be in the range where only 1-2% of the market is willing to go for a PC component, but next year prices will start to become accessible to a broader market (like maybe the top 20%).

I'd like to hope intel getting into the game would put some serious pressure on both price and performance - ultimately, all good news for the consumer

 

[BludyRutz]

yipee. die hard drives die. i say about 5 more years and ssd's will be equally cost effective. soon as that happens, bye bye mechanical storage!