New low-price SSD's from Samsung
Posted on 28/08/08 18:46 by geno 888                             
New low-price SSD's from Samsung
As reported by Tech-On, Samsung announced a new series of low-density SATA II Solid State Drives (SSD) that are only 30% the size of 2.5-inch drive. This new series has been purposely created for low-cost PCs, and will be available in various capacities: 8GB, 16GB and 32GB.

According to the announcement, even  with a lower capacity these drives will use the same high-performance SATA II controller of the top-line products, and the 16GB model is claimed to have a read speed of 90MBps and write speed of 45MBps, while the 8GB reads at 90MBps and writes at 25MBps.

There is no precise information about prices for the end-consumer, but the mass production should start next month.

 

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By chicknlittle (guest), Wed 3 Sep 2008 01:40

cant one just buy flash drives with these capacities? i know flash drives are slowwer but hey, these drives are much larger
By ssd_segment (guest), Wed 3 Sep 2008 13:19

Portable devices are increasingly going to use removable flash media. With sdhc and memory stick of 8gb+, portable devices such as camcorders, digital cameras, portable media players, laptops will see tangible benefits from the technology. we will finally see digital tape storage die a slow death in the camcorder market similar to what happened with vhs from dvd's. The other issue for ssd's is that they make gains in capacity & reductions in price to maintain it's momentum.

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