The Korean company Mtron claims to be the company that sells the fastest solid state disks (SSD's). The company claims that the new drives offer a maximum sustained read speed of 120MBps (bytes per second) and a maximum write speed of 90MBps compared to 100MBps and 80MBps respectively on current models

Speed jumps in solid state disks are important because they directly translate to an increase in performance of the computer as the harddisk is often a bottleneck in modern computers.

SSDs are already fast compared to standard hard-disk drives. The drives use flash memory chips in place of a rotating magnetic disk to store data and that brings a significant performance increase. In previous demonstrations PCs running SSDs have been able to boot Windows in about 20 seconds compared to more than 30 seconds for hard-disk drive-based computers.

Mtron is planning to begin production of the drives in late September or early October. They will be available in 16G byte, 32G byte and 64G byte capacities and in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors with Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces. The drives are plug-in replacements for existing hard-disk drives.