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Solid State Drives, or SSD’s, are finally becoming cheap enough to be popular and with good reason. SSD’s have the ability to run much faster at significantly lower temperatures when compared to regular hard drives. This is because SSD’s have no moving parts in them whatsoever, unlike hard drives. But now there is an SSD that claims to be 50% faster then any hard drive.

Micron’s C300, 2.5 inch RealSSD comes in 128GB and 256GB and is the first to utilize the new SATA 3.0. The 3.0 allows 6GB/s throughout, two times that of SATA 2.0’s. With that, the C300 has a read speed of 355MB/s and a write speed of 215MB/s. Compare that to the OCZ’s Agility EX, another leader in the hard drive industry, with read and write speeds of 255MB/s and 195MB/s respectively.

According to Micron’s comparison video on YouTube, the C300 can boot up to two times faster than a regular hard drive and that can be seen in that video. The difference between the two is obvious.

Now, your going to be paying a pretty penny for these things next year. The 128GB comes in at $350 dollars and the 256GB comes in at $715. But if you have the money to spend, go for it. These things are quite a few steps above everything else. First for being a SSD, and second for using the SATA 3.0 which combined gets it incredible speeds.

Read [Gizmodo]