Shrygue
July 10th, 2008, 19:11
via Gizmodo (http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/07/10/samsung_mass_producing_128gb_s.html)
Cheap Solid State Drives (SSD)s is what we all want and Samsung is aiming to make them bigger and cheaper this year by green-lighting the mass production of 128GB SSDs.
Samsung has already upped the capacity ante this year by announcing its 2.5in 256GB SSD.
Samsung said yesterday that it has started mass producing both 1.8in and 2.5in laptop and desktop drives claiming they will offer the usual SSD benefits alongside low power requirements of approximately 0.2 watts in standby and 0.5 watts when in use.
The Samsung MLC-based SSD has a write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 90MB/s - which although not as fast as single-level-cell (SLC)-based SSDs now in mass production - will be cheaper. Samsung claims the new drives will also last 20 times longer than the usual 4-5 year life span of a notebook PC hard drive. Hmm, 100 years. I'm guessing you'll have it filled long before then.
The drives have a 3.0Gbit per second interface and measure 100mm x 69.8mm and are just 9.5mm thick. Samsung expects sales of SSD units to increase 800% between now and 2010, which should do wonders for the price.
Cheap Solid State Drives (SSD)s is what we all want and Samsung is aiming to make them bigger and cheaper this year by green-lighting the mass production of 128GB SSDs.
Samsung has already upped the capacity ante this year by announcing its 2.5in 256GB SSD.
Samsung said yesterday that it has started mass producing both 1.8in and 2.5in laptop and desktop drives claiming they will offer the usual SSD benefits alongside low power requirements of approximately 0.2 watts in standby and 0.5 watts when in use.
The Samsung MLC-based SSD has a write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 90MB/s - which although not as fast as single-level-cell (SLC)-based SSDs now in mass production - will be cheaper. Samsung claims the new drives will also last 20 times longer than the usual 4-5 year life span of a notebook PC hard drive. Hmm, 100 years. I'm guessing you'll have it filled long before then.
The drives have a 3.0Gbit per second interface and measure 100mm x 69.8mm and are just 9.5mm thick. Samsung expects sales of SSD units to increase 800% between now and 2010, which should do wonders for the price.