Samsung Announces Fastest 64-GB SSD

XueCast writes "The new solid-state drive from Samsung can write data at 100 MB/s and read at 120 MB/s. This handily outperforms other SSDs now on the market, which typically feature only 50-80 MB/s read/write rates. Samsung's SSD will come in two form factors, 1.8" and 2.5", and will be running on the SATA II standard. It will only consume 50% of the power of current SSDs. There is no information yet about price."

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Good to hear but there are other options

[webplay]

This drive doesn't outperform MTRON (http://www.mtron.net/english/). They announced 120 MB/s read, 90 MB/s write drives and they are shipping 100 MB/s read, 80 MB/s write drives already. The SSD-based Fusion IO card (http://www.fusionio.com/) at the claimed 800 MB/s read and 600 MB/s write speed would beat both them handily. Still, it's good to see a major manufacturer up its speeds.

1 essential fact missing

[polar red]

In what price range are we talking ?

Re:I/O limited distros more popular?

[quitte]

distributors are definately in the process of getting io down. So is Linus himself. quote from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/5/171 : "change relatime updates to be performed once per day." It's not only the livetime of flash memory that benefits from this. also power consumption and noise goes down for hdds. and overall io performance benefits fromsuch improvements,too. About the swap: just keep it big enough so the Kernel can free the ram of some unused data, but not a lot bigger. Twice the size of the ram is nonsense these days.. if you run out of buffers and cache you don't have enough ram. if you have enough ram swap is hardly used.

Cheap, fast and good.

[colonslashslash]

Cheap, fast, good - pick two.

"write data at 100 MB/s and read at 120 MB/s."

Hey cool, that's pretty fast.

"64GB .... will only consume 50% of the power of current SSDs"

Good, good.

"There is no information yet about price."

.... Ah, shit!

Re:Can't one achieve such performance & more/w

[repvik]

Yeah, like that'd help. Do you think your USB-chipset can handle much more than 500mbps concurrent traffic? Doesn't matter how many ports it has, it is unlikely to be close to S-ATA speeds seeing as the USB-chipset is on the regular (1gbps?) PCI-bus...

Re:This is how it works

[SharpFang]

Don't get the innards of the cards. Place slots on your board.
4 USB controllers, 16 readers, 1 PCI controller, support electronics. the device would cost some $30 to produce. Sell it empty, without the cards.
And provide a good supply of bulk amount of the cards.

The user can replace a faulty card without scrapping the whole device. They can add or remove cards depending on the needs. They can replace cards with bigger ones when they want more space. They can physically write-protect chosen partitions of the drive.

If you don't worry about the speed much, you can use USB hubs instead of the controllers. Then the device plugs into USB.