Super Talent MasterDrive SSD Gets a Boost

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, July 21, 2008, 08:00 PM EDT

Super Talent MasterDrive SSD Gets a Performance Boost

Notebook SSD Line Now Supports Dramatically Faster Write Speeds

San Jose, California – July 22, 2008 – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced that the company has dramatically improved the write speeds of its MasterDrive DX, MasterDrive KX and MasterDrive MX solid state drives (SSDs).

These three series of SSDs already boast exceptionally fast read speeds of up to 120 MB/sec. But, fast write speeds are important in applications such as video editing and encoding, image processing, compressing and extracting files, installing applications and copying files to the drive. These newly revised SSDs categorically outpace the fastest hard drives in the world.

MasterDrive Series	Description	Max Read/Write Speed
MasterDrive Series	Description	Old	New (low cap)	New (high cap)
DX	2.5-inch SATA-II w/ SLC Flash	120/70 MB/sec	120/80 MB/sec	120/100 MB/sec
KX	1.8-inch Micro SATA w/ MLC Flash	120/40 MB/sec	120/60 MB/sec	120/80 MB/sec
MX	2.5-inch SATA-II w/ MLC Flash	120/40 MB/sec	120/60 MB/sec	120/80 MB/sec

MasterDrive series SSDs now support much faster read and write speeds and faster seek and access times than the speediest hard drives. Other SSD advantages over hard drives are:

Superior resistance to shock and vibration;
Use less power in both active and standby modes, and produce less heat;
Completely silent
The 60GB and 120GB models support slightly faster write speeds than 15GB and 30GB models.

“Our expert engineering team is constantly discovering new ways to improve our products, and this is one improvement that will be well received by power laptop users”, commented Super Talent Director of Marketing, Joe James. “We continue our relentless drive to add performance, features and value to our SSDs while driving the price down”, Mr. James added. MasterDrive SSDs are available now from NewEgg and Newbiiz.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com