I am still patiently waiting for the day when NAND flash gets cheap enough that we can stop using normal hard drives and go for SSD drives in our notebooks. I could certainly use all of the battery life I can get and faster boot speeds are great too.

Super Talent announced a new line of SSD drives today that are direct replacements for normal 2.5-inch hard drives and use the SATA-II interface. The drives are called MasterDrive SSD and use a proprietary algorithm to extend the life of the drives.

Super Talent has a 120GB MasterDrive MX that will retail for $699, not a bad price really for that much SSD storage. The drive also has 120/40 MB/sec read and write speeds. Other capacities available include a 60GB for $449 and a 30GB for $299. A pair of faster 120/70 MB/sec read and write speed drives are available in 60GB for $1299 and 30GB for $699.

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