Pricing is also not specified and SSD drives typically carry a much higher premium than traditional hard drives. This SSD drive would have to come in a 5mm height to fit in the Air, but this dimension is not specified in the press release.

The introduction of this 1.8' SSD drive raises the maximum capacity of the MacBook Air, which is currently limited to 80GB due to physical size constraints. Mtron touts the ability of the SSD drive to withstand shock, vibration and consume nearly 50% less power than a conventional hard drive. Recommended Storage Enclosures OWC Mercury On-The-Go 2.5 Portable USB 3.0 Enclosure kit for SATA Hard Drives including Solid State Drives (SSD) Sabrent 2.5. Mtron also released 1.8 Inch SSD with Multi Level Cell (MLC) Flash memory, which provides maximum memory capacity of up to 128 GB along with a maximum reading speed of 110 MB/s and writing speed of 40MB/s. Therefore when its used in laptop PC and UMPC, it delivers much faster performance than desktop.

Mtrons new SSD with Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash memory supports PATA (ZIF-type) interface and has a maximum reading speed of 120MB/s and writing speed of 100MB/s, which is more than 6 times faster than the current 1.8 inch HDD. Mtron announced today that they have developed a 128GB 1.8' solid state drive (SSD) with a ZIF-type interface that is due to ship in April 2008.

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