Toshiba says 512GB Solid State Drive’s by 2009

Toshiba has announced they will be planning to ship 512GB solid state drives by 2009.  Toshiba currently is preparing to ship 128GB solid state drives to the market by June of this year.  The news of course belittle’s Samsung’s announcement of 256GB SSD’s by 2009.  This is great news and everything but unless they pull a rabbit out of their hat(literally) then the SSD market will take a long time to replace current hard drive technologies due to performance issues.  The current SSD units on market are considerably slower than current hard drive technologies especially with random read and write operations.  Hopefully they double or triple the performance every time they double the capacity to make it worth while.