SUPER TALENT TECHNOLOGY launched a line of new MasterDrive solid state drives or SSDs, that the company claims are completely interchangeable with hard disk drives (HDDs). The firm said its new SSDs are more power efficient, reliable, rugged, lighter and most importantly, faster than HDDs.

The life of the SSDs is apparently extended by proprietary wear-leveling algorithms which ensures storage media have evenly distributed data writes and for controllers in the storage media to remap logical-block addresses to different physical-block addresses in the solid-state memory array.

MasterDrive DX drives use SLC NAND Flash which the company reckons can support an impressive sequential read and write speed up to 120 and 70 MB/sec respectively, backed up with a three year warranty. Super Talent’s MasterDrive MX drive makes use of MLC Flash to get its sequential read/write speeds of 120 and 40 MB/sec, and that has a one-year warranty.

The San Jose based company said that it was manufacturing ultra-rugged DuraDrive SSDs in capacities up to 256GB. The company intends to show off its entire line of Flash and DRAM products at Computex 2008 in Taipei in the beginning of June. µ