Highlights from CEATEC 2008

Sights and sounds from Japan's cutting-edge IT and electronics comprehensive exhibition

Toshiba showed off a 2.5-inch version of the 256G-byte SSD at the Ceatec exhibition. A spokeswoman for the company confirmed the drives will be commercially available, but pricing was not immediately available. Based on multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory chips and designed for laptops, the 256G-byte SSD uses a 3G bps (bits per second) SATA-2 interface. The drive can read up to 120M bytes of data per second and writes up to 70M bytes per second, Toshiba said.

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