Samsung producing 256GB solid state drive
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 20, 2008 at 1:00pm
Samsung has begun mass producing 256GB solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop computers.
The new 256GB SSD more than doubles the performance rates of Samsung 64GB and 128GB SSDs to become the SSD with the highest overall performance in the personal computer industry, combining sequential read rates of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) with sequential write rates of 200MB/s, according to Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor,. 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, he adds.
In addition, erase cycles are a rapid 100GBs per minute, allowing the entire drive to be re-written much faster, when needed. What’s more, the 256GB SSD launches applications 10 times faster than the fastest 7200rpm notebook HDD, Elliott says.
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