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Crucial offers "fastest solid state disk" using new Micron silicon

Capacities of 128 GB or even 256 GB of solid state "disk" storage are being offered by the Crucial RealSSD C300 drive. It's a 2.5 inch package, fitting most mobile netbooks and notebooks.

The drive was launched this week in Las Vegas (not at CES!) with the emphasis on speed.

"Benchmark tests have shown the Crucial C300 to be the fastest desktop and notebook SSD available to end consumers, boasting scorching-fast read speeds of up to 355MB/s," said the company today. "The Crucial C300 natively supports SATA 6Gb/s—the next generation high-speed storage interface—and is backwards compatible with the SATA 3Gb/s interface."

"The Crucial RealSSD C300 drive is the fastest drive we’ve tested to date," said Robert Wheadon, Lexar Media senior worldwide SSD product manager. “The big “wow” factor for consumers is a marked improvement in boot-up times – the Crucial RealSSD C300 drive is blazing fast, like no other SSD we’ve ever seen in the Crucial Performance Lab.”

For full details, see the press release