One of the criticisms made against the new Apple MacBook Air is the employment by them of SSD unconventional Toshiba, which reduces the potential for updates. However, the Japanese now announces the commercialization of these next baptized Blade SSD X-scab, which should facilitate the replacement of DSS intégréss in new machines of the firm at the apple.

The new X-Blade SSD scabies Toshiba therefore adopt a particular format of 2.2 mm thickness by being 42% thinner than a SSD claassique MSAT. Their exact dimensions are 108.9 x 24 x 2.2 mm with a weight of 9.8 grams for 64 GB and 128 GB, while the 256 GB version measuring 108.9 x 24 x 3.7 mm and weighs 13.02 grams. One can therefore ask whether it can effectively integrate the new MacBook Air or is too thick for that.

Equipped with a controller made in Toshiba MLC NAND flash memory (Multi-Level Cell) SSD X-Blade scab provide data rates up to 220 MB / s read and 180MB / s write. They work with a SATA 2.6 (3 Gb / s) at 3.3V and feature a MTBF (mean time between failures) of 1 million hours.