240Mb/s?
So, 30MB/s then? Not that hot, is it?
Toshiba has developed what it claims is the world’s first 512GB 2.5in solid-state drive. The firm said its high-capacity SSD is destined for notebooks, gaming PCs and home entertainment systems. Toshiba_512GB_SSD Toshiba's 512GB SSD: capacious Toshiba’s drive has a 3Gb/s SATA interface and a maximum sequential read speed …
@Frank
According to the Toshiba press release, the "MB" is actually megaBYTE not megabit:
http://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/press_releases/2008/memy_08_550.jsp
The footnote next to the first instance of the quoted speeds reads thus:
"For purposes of measuring read and write speed in this context, 1 Megabyte or MB = 1,000,000 bytes. Read and write speed may vary depending on the controller, read and write conditions, such as file sizes you read and/or write."
Okay, so it's one of those stupid hard disk manufacturer MB values rounded to a cool 1,000,000 bytes and not 1,048,576 bytes (1024 * 1024) as used everywhere else.
In terms of performance, with virtually zero seek times in SSDs and those read/write rates, these drives can potentially tinkle on traditional drive technology from a great height. Esp. when SSD optimised OS drivers surface like Sandisk's ExtremeFFS.
Plus they're perfectly silent and use a fraction of the power. It's a real shame these devices will cost about the same as a small nation's GDP...
ps - I hate the fact that mbit has recently been further abbreviated to Mb - didn't anyone realise that was already taken?!