If we are often talking about SSD, it remains currently a product for a niche market, and only available for rather rich users. If performance are already there, the storage capacity of such drives remain low. This could evolve quickly, and as soon as next year.
Toshiba expects to release a SSD featuring 256 GB of storage space as early as Q1 2009 thank to new chips engraved at 43 nm and being produced "en masse" at the end of the year. As SSD is a "marketing hotcake", the company decided to communicate about later project and its expectation to release an even larger SDD model featuring 512 GB (with 32 nm engraved chips).
For consumer's interest, it would be great to have other manufacturers to follow Toshiba, otherwise with the lack of competition we will not experience a rapid drop of prices. Such potential will also only turn true if they can cut manufacturing costs of such memory chips, in order to offer lower capacity SSD (such as 128GB) at an affordable price.
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