The Storage Peripherals Division of Toshiba Europe announced on Wednesday the launch of new family of midrange solid state drives (SSDs), the SSD A100 Series. They’re only available in two capacities and ideal for tossing out the old clunky hard drive for a performance upgrade. They’re quiet compared to hard drives, they shorten boot times by an amazing amount, and they consume less power.

Toshiba’s two new A100 Series SSDs are based on 3-bit-per-cell 15nm flash memory technology, Toshiba’s in-house flash memory controller (TC58NC1010), and single-level-cell (SLC) cache technology. That all essentially means that each NAND memory cell stores three bits of data, as each cell has multiple levels inside. You need a controller to assign data to these cells, and the cache is where data is shoved into a “waiting room” as the controller moves data in and out of each cell.