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October 7, 2008 4:56 PM PDT

From Super Talent, Eee PC-specific solid-state drives

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Super Talent Technology, a vendor that just announced high-speed and low-budget solid-state drives, introduced on Tuesday its new line of SSDs designed explicitly for Asus' Eee PCs.

The new line is available in three sizes--16GB, 20GB, and 64GB. The drives use a mini PCI-Express interface and offer rather modest throughput speeds of 40 megabytes per second in writing and 15MBps in reading.

Standard Eee PCs will generally use the 20GB version of the new SSD. Users then can choose to upgrade to 64GB or downgrade to 15GB versions. These drives can also be used in any devices that share the same mini PCI-Express interface. The "explicitly designed" notion only means that Super Talent has tested them and guarantees their performance and compatibility only with Asus' Eee PCs.

If you want to try them out, they will be available in November, and for relatively inexpensive prices--$53 to $149 a piece depending on the size.

Dong Ngo is a CNET editor who covers networking and network storage, and writes about anything else he finds interesting. You can also listen to his podcast at insidecnetlabs.cnet.com. E-mail Dong.
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by jschmidt1340 October 8, 2008 5:10 AM PDT
I think you might have that backwards on the speed specifications. Usually, the read speed is faster than the write speed. Could it be 40MB/sec read and 15MB/se write?
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