27th
May
2008
Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive
Samsung is claiming the fastest SSD data transfer rates to date.CNET site ZDNet Korea reports that Samsung announced the development of a 2.5-inch, 256GB solid state drive (SSD) at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei, Taiwan.
Normal notebook PCs come with solid state drives with capacity of 64GB.This drive has a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second and sequential write speed of 160MBps.
Special feature of these SSD is they don't have any mechanical moving parts which separates them from other drives which have mechanical failures and delays.
But there was no mention of price anywhere mentioned !
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