Thickness to be announced...
remember the earlier large capacity 2.5in notebook drives would only fit in older/thicker notebooks, thicker than now standard 9.5mm. Can't tell from the image in jtr's link---and that's probably not the target market.
pureSilicon also claims that they have benchmarked these drives at speeds approaching the maximum bus speed of SATA II (300 MB/s).
This from a company that says this on their site in spec's for the rugged max capacity 64GB Renegade SSD 2.5in 9.5mm SATA drive...300MB/s bus, :
STR R:45MB/s W: 45MB/s Random W: 8MB/s...really slow!
So how are they getting this huge capacity/performance increase in the new drive. I'm skeptical.
http://www.puresi.com/
I hardly believe some small, relatively unknown company is pulling a rabbit out of their hat, as all the big players in the market control the chips/density that smaller co like pureSilicon have access to. Toshiba has announced a 512GB SSD 2.5in form factor, which is rumored to be priced around $1.5k. No way this 1TB SSD is going to come in at any thing less than $2k, if not
many times that. World is in a recession that only gets worse...how many $8k Nikon D3x are going to sell in a very soft market?
Question is when will there be an affordable (read within 2-3x cost of HD) SSD of comparable capacity to HD's? Market for $2k notebook drives is very small.
All well and good to have 100TB SDD 2.5in drive, if only multimillionaire/large corporations can afford them.