Samsung to Mass Produce High Speed SSDs
02.19.08 - 11:48am
Samsung announced earlier this week that they will begin mass producing their high speed 64GB 1.8″ solid state drives. These drives are a step above the common drives currently launching as they are capable for 100 MB/s reads and 80 MB/s writes which is a considerable jump from the average 40MB/s reads and 25MB/s writes. This will be great news for consumers as these speeds combined with their ultra-low access times should yield some nice performance increases for laptop and desktop consumers. Initial reports are pricing these drives are nearly $1,000 but expect these prices to drop a few hundred dollars as the market slowly becomes flooded with these and competitor’s drives. According to Samsung though, these drives will be initially reserved for select Dell and Alienware laptops, so us “average” consumers will have to wait in line. I can already see it, two of these in RAID0 and two terabyte drives in RAID1 for the ultimate combination in desktop storage.
Source: TG Daily
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