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Samsung Announces Fastest 64-GB SSD

Posted by kdawson on from the want-to-see-it-again dept.

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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  1. Vaporware by Zebra_X · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is all crap. The supposed 64 GB drives are available from sony, there is reference on dells site as well but no link to buy and no machines that carry them - other than that you can't get them anywhere. The 32 GB drives are still ~ 600 bones. While I don't mind the price, the size is just to small. MTRON says "coming soon".

    Samsungs PR department needs to slow down...

    1. Re:Vaporware by Zebra_X · · Score: 0, Troll

      I was speaking strictly about Samsung, they have been very vocal about announcing "breakthroughs" and not delivering... almost worse than AMD lol.

      Yeah it's good, once there are enough devices out there prices will fall.

  2. What speeds? by Chemisor · · Score: 0, Troll

    120 Mbps? Oh, please! My IDE drive can do 60 Mbps, with moving parts, including that huge "read arm" thingy that actually has to move a few inches to read something. Here you have a piece of pure electronics, with no mechanical parts, and it can only double the transfer rate? I say it's pathetic. An SSD ought to have speeds comparable to RAM, in the Gbps range, and until one does, the rest are just useless ripoffs. But, of course, that's just my opinion.