Wednesday, April 29th 2009
TakeMS Enters the SSD Market
TakeMS International AG, German manufacturer of flash memory products for your needs, today joins the SSD business by starting to offer 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB solid-state drives in its product portfolio. Using no special model name, the Take MS drives use 2.5-inch enclosures full of MLC NAND flash chips and a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface to achieve transfer rates of up to 150 MB/s. The new drives are already starting to appear in European shops for 94.55, 149.17 and 270.06 Euro for the 32 GB, 64 GB, and the 128 GB models.
Technical specifications:
Source:
TakeMS
- Data exchange via SATA II standard
- 2.5-inch form factor with 9.5 mm height
- Weight: 60 - 75 grams (depending on capacity)
- Automatic error correction
- Data transfer rate up to 150 MB/s
- Access time 0.2 ms
- Static Wear Leveling technology - reduces flash chip wearout
- Mini USB port
- Power consumption: load ~ 400 mA / idle ~ 160 mA
- Capacity: 32 / 64 / 128 GB
6 Comments on TakeMS Enters the SSD Market
Those old school HDD companies will have a nut to crack if everybody starts making SSDs at home.
i get $357 using xe.com
they are mostly looking at a mixed mode setup with ram(flashram or ddr) mixed with a classic mech hdd, these drives could offer the speed boost of ssd with the capacity of mech at a lower price point.
SSD's got at least another year or 2 b4 they become "main stream"