Samsung Speeds SSDs

November 21 2008: Samsung has announced that it is now mass producing a new 256GB solid state disk (SSD), saying that the new drive offers substantial speed improvements, in some cases more than doubling the performance of its 64 and 128GB SSDs.

The company claims that the new drives are the best over overall performing SSDs for notebooks and desktop PCs, and offer sequential read rates of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) and sequential write rates of 200MB/s.

Samsung says that this sharply narrows the performance gap between read and write operations to only 10 percent, compared to a read-write speed difference of between 20 and 70 percent for other SSDs.

Additionally, erase cycles have been boosted to 100GB per minute, allowing the entire drive to be re-written much faster.

“While SSD's have always been touted for their performance, Samsung is turning the storage industry upside down now with an SSD that delivers truly disruptive performance,” says Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “Getting our exceptionally high performing 256GB SSD in a notebook is analogous to having a 15,000rpm drive, without all of its size, noise, power and heating.”

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