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."

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cant wait

[ionix5891]

to put some of these into my servers

And of course no price

[Kjella]

IT had better not be same price/GB as Intel, at 1800$ I'd say it's a speciality interest drive. If they can match the 7-800$ for the 250GB OCZ SSD but without the horrible Jmicron controller, this could be a winner.

How many hours will it last if used as swap?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wonder how many hours this drive would last if used for swap or a database container until the flash cells wear out and start returning errors.