LBA is a tried and true technology that has been used in conventional hard drives for quite some time now; Toshiba plans to bring this same technology to solid-state memory. LBA works by giving each memory cell an address independent from both the device's structure and configuration. Toshiba claims that this addressing technique allows the memory subsystem to be changed without having to rewrite the flash driver. This procedure, says Toshiba, will reduce production cost and time.
The new LBA-flash devices should be in production with 2, 4 and 8 gigabyte models as early as this month. After the release of these new drives consumers should see a drop in prices for media players such as mp3 players and digital cameras that use Toshiba-made flash drives.
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