Advanced Media sent out a press release today, announcing its Ridata Ultra-S Plus MLC Series of Solid State Drives (SSD). These new MLC-based SSDs are available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities and offer 128MB/s read and 80MB/s write speeds.

Advanced Media, Inc., is a manufacturer and marketer of the popular Ridata brand of recordable CD and DVD media, electronic storage products, and digital media accessories. The company is pleased to introduce its Ridata Ultra-S Plus Series of Solid State Drives (SSD) featuring faster transfer speeds than current Ultra-S products. Ultra-S Plus MLC now offers users products featuring a Multi-Level Cell (MLC) SATA configuration for fast read and write speeds plus larger storage capacities at a lower cost.

"We are pleased to offer laptop and other mobile computing device users an affordable SSD alternative to Hard Disk Drives (HDD). SSD drives offer a host of benefits over traditional hard disk drives especially for notebooks. Cool and silent running, low battery usage, fast data access, dependable performance and resistance to temperature, shock, vibration and humidity make SSD ideal for the mobile computing environment," remarked Harvey Liu, Advanced Media President.
The 32GB, 64GB and 128GB versions of the Ridata Ultra-S Plus MLC SSD will be available in late July and are priced at $168.90, $294.90, $539.90, respectively. If you'd like to read more, Advanced Media's entire press release can be found here.