Samsung 512GB SSD Has Toggle-mode DDR NAND

Well this won't be cheap, but I guess the good news is with each new step, the older models are less viable and become way way cheaper! We hopefully will see that magical 1$ per GB number soon!

This bodes well for the consumer in the long run...

I'm waiting for $0.4 per GB to upgrade... I'm waiting sitting down, luckily.

Why ignoring already better technology with SandForce based controller processors and investing in slower one, is it going really going to be cheaper and with room to develop?

"The toggle-mode DDR structure together with the SATA 3.0Gbps interface generates a maximum sequential read speed of 250 MBps and a 220MBps sequential write speed, both of which provide three-fold the performance of a typical hard disk drive."

This is stated as if we don't already have drives capable of doing this...

Why do we want it? It's not that fast...

And what is "toggle-mode"? Is there a switch on the unit to make it go faster? If so (or something like that) what's the drawback to just having that be on all the time?

you realize $1 per GB will still make this SSD $512... I've seen a few SSD's on sale that have been $1.50 per gig, still way to much. tell me when this is in the ~$200 range

How long before motherboards incorporate a few gigs of DDR NAND allowing you to install your OS on them. Seems like a good idea to me.

I Hope 1TB+ SSD comes out soon in a few months

Can't wait for the time 128GB/256GB SSD to become cheap

Haha, turbo button..... oh, did i just show my age.

Ah the good old turbo button my 486DX2 used to rock in turbo mode LOL.

Yeap, my 286 16mhz had it too... dropped freq to 8mhz if I remember. Some games that were made to run on the 8088/86 woudl require me to press or they would run CRAZY fast.

I run the G2 intel SSDs at home and at work. Best investment ever. My system is as fast as it was day 1 when I installed... and no more disk thrashing noise (that pierces me like a craying infant).

Once we have higher production these things will be just as cheap as HDs, just a matter of time before they are obsolete. The future of SSDs looks bright with new NAND replacement tech as well. MRAM being one of them.

Now bring on 2TB SSD's for under $100 and I'm in!

SSD's are absolutely choked by the SATA II standard. How come manufacturers havn't decided to utilize SATA III with these? I only know that Crucial has SATA III SSD's and their read/writes are 355MB/215MB for their 256GB model. OCZ has the edge with the PCI-Express SSD model, but the price on those are outrageous.

Not only am I waiting for these things to get cheaper, but I'm also waiting for the standard swap to SATA III.

Just to add, the OCZ models can acheive about 1.4GB read/write. Again, I say that until a more effecient bandwidth/connection standard is developed for these, they'll be little like loading bb's into a bazooka.

Sweet! It's too bad ssd's still cost about 3x what im willing to pay for one.

ahh.. turbo button.. the good ole days of PC's when having a computer was a geeky hobby.

Wow! three times faster! half the capacity! and three times the cost! Gogo Gadget!
Sorry about that... as long the drives cost as much as three times the magnetics ones this drives won't be other than Gadgets for those who have lot to spend and less to worry about.

Eh, people make too much about the price of the object and fail yet to realize how impressive this is on a daily basis. I put a Vertex 1 120 gb drive into a netbook (Asus EEE PC 1000h) and it was a great computer until I couldn't stand the 600 horizontal lines of resolution.

Just bought a 2TB HD for $99. I'd be willing to spend double the $/GB on an SSD (this 512GB would need to be $50), but we aren't even close to that right now.

It's finally at a capacity that interests me but until it can be less than double the comparable magnetic drive per GB it will remain out of reach for all but the most demanding customers.

I'd be happy to pick up a 500GB SSD for around $200, which is still well over twice the per GB of current magnetic drives. Just the price point and capacity where I will enter into this market. This new drive is just one step in that direction (capacity).

This is almost exactly what Intel did to demo their 80 core super computer on a chip design a while back. The blade server market is heading towards this as well due to smaller size and power requirements that are well suited for that market.

Does the "toggle-mode" make it cheaper? Why is there no mention of price?

that is a good idea, even just a 64gig.. then we just buy a couple TB HDD's for storage.

I will wait for the fastest and cheapest.

"SSDs are now hitting sizes that are beginning to make them viable replacements for the magnetic counterparts. "

if you ignore the steep price tags of SSDs, then yes, they are getting near the big sizes needed to replace HDDs. however, you can't ignore the price when you actually buy one, and the cost is outrageously expensive. add the to the fact that music, video and back up files don't really benefit from ultra-fast access times like the OS and games, and replacing HDDs with costly SSDs is a stupid idea.

One day you'll tell your grandchildren, "We used to store our data on round disks that were read by a needle ... um I mean head ... and the disks were made of vinyl ... um I mean magnets." Bring on the new tech. Price will work itself out eventually. I know of no other small drive technology (eg., that will fit in a laptop) that comes anywhere remotely close to the performance of these drives.