Samsung’s low-density, high-performance SATA II SSDs for inexpensive PC market
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Now Samsung unveiled that it has begun casing low-density, higher-performance SSDs, which are only 30% of the size of 2.5” SSDs and extremely manufacture cost-efficient.
Presenting of these smaller, low powered SSDs, now Samsung presents a pretty replacement for existing HDs used in low-priced PCs. Available in densities of 32GB, 16GB, and 8GB, the new SSDs multi-level-cell will be mass produced starting in next month.
The Samsung low-density SSDs use the similar high-performance SATA II controller technique as that being used on its just-presented MLC-based 128GB SSD.
Samsung’s new SSD based on MLC at capacity 32GB will write it at 70MB/s and read data at 90MB/s – performance stages much better than low-density SSDs on then today market. The 16GB writes at 45MB/s and reads at 90MB/s, while the 8GB writes at 25MB/s and reads at 90MB/s.
Samsung integrates 4 individual 16GB MLC NAND chips in its 8GB SSD, included 4 packages dual-die and 4 packages quad-die of 16 GB NAND for its 32GB and 16GB SSDs respectively.