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Verbatim's businesses in the Americas, Europe/Middle
East/Africa and Asia Pacific regions are wholly owned subsidiaries of
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. MKM's parent company, Mitsubishi
Chemical Corporation (MCC), is Japan's largest chemical company. Verbatim
develops and markets innovative, high-quality products for storing, moving and
using digital content. Known for its leadership in the optical, magnetic and
flash storage and related accessories markets, the company provides reliable,
unique technologies and products that are highly sought after and broadly
distributed worldwide. For more information, contact Verbatim Americas, LLC,
1200 W.T. Harris Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28262, (800) 421-4188. In Europe,
Verbatim Ltd., Prestige House, 23-26 High Street, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9DU, UK,
(+44) 1784 439 781. In Japan, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd., 31-19, Shiba
5-Chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014, (+81) 3-5454-3972. Or visit the web site at
www.verbatim.com and select the country of your location.
See also:-
Verbatim
editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's notes:- in January 2009 -
Verbatim said it will
ship a 64GB ExpressCard
SSD in February (price $299.99 ) with read speed upto 125MB/s, and write
speed upto 30MB/s.
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Pass HDDs in Storage Density |
2009 may
well be remembered as the year that flash
SSDs surpassed HDDs
in storage capacity in the same form factor.
I'm not talking about itsy
bitsy
1 inch and smaller drives
here. I'm talking about the hard core
2.5" form factor.
That's
the size which once seemed to offer the
best hopes
for hard disk makers staying in business - in applications like disk to
disk backup, entertainment
bulk storage etc.
In January 2009 - pureSilicon started
sampling a
2.5" MLC SSD -
with 1TB capacity in a 9.5mm high form factor.
Price wasn't mentioned.
I expect it will cost a lot. But nowhere near as much as the 1st terabyte SSDs
cost - when they appeared in
2002 - at
a cool $2 million.
So you may well ask - when will SSDs cost less
than HDDs for the same capacity?
In some high-performance grades (15K
RPM server drives) - I expect to see that happen this year - in smaller
capacities like 100GB. Looking Ahead to the
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