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Samsung Mass Produces Fast 256GB SSDs
Lucas123 writes "Samsung said it's now mass producing a 256GB solid state disk that it says has sequential read/write rates of 220MB/sec and 200/MBsec, respectively. Samsung said it focused on narrowing the disparity of read/write rates on its SSD drive with this model by interleaving NAND flash chips using eight channels, the same way Intel boosts its X25 SSD. The drive doubles the performance of Samsung's previous 64GB and 128GB SSDs. 'The 256GB SSD launches applications 10 times faster than the fastest 7200rpm notebook HDD,' Samsung said in a statement."
It makes a nice press release. But I like to see a story with a little more meat on the bones.
Apparently there is a thread going at wickedfire.com talking about how you push your adverts onto places like digg and reddit. Unfortunately I don't feel like registering with the dirt bags to find out if there is a thread on Slashdot... but with more and more posts that seem to be press releases, makes ya wonder.
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It's because you are confusing quickness with rapidness. See this drive has a quickness about 3.5x better than regular drives, but a 10x higher rapidness ! They also improved the speediness by about 5x.
Hopes that clears it up for you.