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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. Good to hear but there are other options by webplay · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. Flash! Ah ahhhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Savior of the Universe!

  3. Cheap, fast and good. by colonslashslash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!

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  4. SSD by Remnant44 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I shall make this SSD my flagship.. and I will call it the Executor.

  5. Re:This is how it works by SharpFang · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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