Mtron, a global manufacturer of Solid State Drive (SSD) products in South Korea, announced today that they have completed the development of a new 1.8 Inch ZIF-type SSD for laptop PC and will begin the production in April.
Mtron has previously launched 2.5 Inch 32GB SSD and Multi Level Cell (MLC) SSD in 2007, and Mtron believes that the addition of the new product will help them to take the next step in mobile SSD market.
Mtron’s new SSD with Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash memory supports PATA (ZIF-type) interface and has a maximum reading speed of 120MB/s and writing speed of 100MB/s, which is more than 6 times faster than the current 1.8 inch HDD. Therefore when it’s used in laptop PC and UMPC, it delivers much faster performance than desktop. Mtron also released 1.8 Inch SSD with Multi Level Cell (MLC) Flash memory, which provides maximum memory capacity of up to 128 GB along with a maximum reading speed of 110 MB/s and writing speed of 40MB/s.
With no moving parts, Mtron’s 128GB SSD makes much less noise, offers resistance against shock and vibration, and consumes nearly 50 percent less power than conventional hard disk drive. Mtron’s new SSD provides 4 times larger memory capacity and makes it ideal for not only laptop PC, but also UMPC, PMP mobile devices, camcorders, MP3, gaming console, navigation, and other mobile entertainment devices.
Mtron expects their new 128 GB 1.8 Inch SSD will begin replacing the current 1.8 Inch HDD.
Steve Jeon, CEO of Mtron, said in the press release, “With our new 1.8 Inch SSD, Mtron has added another great product line as a leader in SSD market, which is expected to grow into ten billion dollars in 2012. Our new product is a result of careful market analysis and research for consumer needs, and we will launch our new product in April so that we can satisfy their need for high performance SSD products.”
Established in 2005, Mtron is the pioneer in Flash memory solution world by using their technology on storage, server systems, and security systems. Mtron merged with Digital First in 2008 and changed their official name to Mtronstorage Technology. As worldwide leader in Flash memory SSD, Mtron focuses on R&D and market research in order to develop new SSD products for consumers and improve SSD industry around the world.
Source: Mtron
[UPDATE: 2:10pm EST: Added “no” before “moving parts.”]
The Macbook air is going to become a whole lot more attractive with this
“With moving parts, Mtron’s 128GB SSD makes much less noise,…”
Yo, MDN, you might want to proof read that line again.
Hopefully the prices will shrink fast so that us mere mortals will be able to afford them.
In MDN’s defense, it’s that way in the press release as well. Still, consider reading what you copy and paste.
On the other hand, maybe this does have moving parts. Maybe there’s a teeny-tiny robot in there that just plugs in one of eight 16GB Flash cards depending on which memory segment you want to read.
Electrons are parts…..
Part of everything.
@Peter
Nah, they just gave the gerbils better expresso.
“Electrons are parts”
and they move with ‘frequency’….
Sounds good. how much?
THE question: Will it fit into a MacBook Air?
@Think:
There’s no x in espresso.
F that Mr. Reeee, will they replace the hard drive in my MacBook Pro?
Their new 128GB SDD will not go into a MBA or MBP due to the form factor is a ZIF interface and not SATA.
/loves me them acronyms.
@Think, Yo, MDN, you might want to proof read that line again.
You are kiddin’, right Think?
@st
Well got nailed by time and CTRL click for spot checking spelling. Never realized there were two spellings for it.
Had to look it up manually this time:
expresso |ikˈspresō|
noun
variant spelling of espresso .
USAGE See usage at espresso .
I see they corrected it now.
[UPDATE: 2:10pm EST: Added “no” before “moving parts.”]
Call me when a half a terrabyte is $79. It’ll happen, cause I remember back when a gig of RAM was $1,000.
Does this mean we will have a 128 gig iPhone in the near future? That’ll be plenty enough space.
I’m still laughing at the electron comments….
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@montex
the HDD/SSD interface on the MBA is PATA not SATA
a Gig for a grand? I remember spending $100 to buy the 8 chips to upgrade my Apple II by 16K
What’s the height on that SSD, cause Apple uses the thinnest one, something like only 5mm.
Oh yeah?
Well I remember when I was selling my son into slavery to add another wire and beads to my abacus!!!
Abacus? Pah! Kids don’t remember the true way was blood on a cave wall. And before that we’d have to count our flagella.
Yeah yeah yeah?
Well I remember helping my grandpa build this stinking huge wooden boat…
I remeber purchasing my first stick of ram. It was 4 megs and cost $125. I also remember when my best friend got a new computer and upgraded to 24 megs. We both were sure he would never ever need more than that.
Corporate install. PowerMac something, the Macs cost about $4,000 each and they wanted to max the ram. Put 128 MB in each one. The ram cost more than the Macs did. Held four 32 MB dimms in my hand and just could not believe it was worth more than $4,000.
Ahh, those were the days…
We actually had a walk-in steel cage with steel ceiling in the warehouse just for the memory inventory. Too many walked off before that was installed.