Samsung launch next gen Solid State Drives

And speedy little blighters they are too. But before we get talk about their speed just a note that the top capacity is still 64 GB so the drives are still only useful for notebooks and high-end desktops. Their price will be prohibitive too, but less of the negativity and back to their speed!

Well this latest gen of SSDs from Samsung has a sequential write speed of 100 MBps and sequential read of 120 MBps. This blows the old gen speeds of 45 and 65 right out of the water. The boffins over at Samsung have managed this by using a super-fast SATA interface

Samsung’s SATA II SSD combines a 50 nm-class, single-level-cell (SLC) 8Gb flash chip with a Samsung proprietary, high-speed SATA controller and supporting software.

Not only do you get faster speeds but the drives use less than half as much power as current notebook PCs so you get to save the planet at the same time.

So whilst these drives aren’t exactly mainstream yet, with this amount of time and effort (and money of course) being spent by drive manufacturers, they obviously believe that SSD are indeed the way forward.

Source: StreetInsider

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