Samsung Producing 256GB SSD with Higher Levels of Performance

[Ci7]

Samsung 256GB SSD with significantly higher performance is now in mass production

The hard drive is still the most popular choice for large amounts of storage on most consumer desktop and notebook computers. The capacity and performance of traditional HDDs is continually improving. On the other side of the ring are SSDs offering more performance at the cost of reduced capacity and significantly higher price.

While reducing the price of an SSD and increasing storage capacity is one way to fuel the migration from HDDs to the SSD, another way is to improve SSD performance to the point that the performance better justifies the price. Samsung has announced that it is now producing 256GB SSDs that offer significantly improved performance compared to previous generation SSDs aimed at the consumer market.

Samsung says that the SSD offers sequential read rates of 220MB/s with sequential write rates of 200MB/s. The SSD can also erase data at 100GBs per minute allowing for faster rewrites.

Samsung's Jim Elliott, VP of memory marketing said in a statement, "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. 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 drawbacks."

Samsung says that the performance increase for the multi-level cell SSD comes courtesy of a new, optimized single platform design including a chip controller, NAND flash, and special drive firmware all developed by Samsung. The drive is energy efficient as well consuming only 1.1 watts of power.

Pricing and availability for the new SSDs are unknown at this time.

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[bigmehdi]

The announced SSD looks impressive ... And samsung's SSD got reputation to be more reliable... (no crappy controller).

Now they don't say how much it would cost, and if it's a MLC or a SLC.

Most brand are adopting MLC unfortunately ...

[Rudy]

the price will most likely make this out of most people's reach

[suspiria]

the price will most likely make this out of most people's reach

Yeah, that would cost a fortune. It'd be nice though...

[tsupersonic]

That is fast! I can't wait for cheap SSD's! Woot!

[Ci7]

the price will most likely make this out of most people's reach

i have a feeling that it would cost 900~1000 USD or at least samsung are aiming at that price point .

i hope it would drive down other drive cost

edit :

it look like it is really MLC

Samsung goes for 256GB SSDs

With MLC NAND chips

Samsung has announced that it has begun a mass production of 256GB SSDs for notebooks and desktop PCs. These new drives will compliment Samsung's offer of SSDs which ranges from 8, 16 and 32GB for low-density designs and 64, 128 and now 256GB alternatives for the higher densities.

The new 256GB SSDs doubles the performance rates of Samsung's SSDs as they have rated read and write speeds of up to 220MB/s and 200MB/s respectively. Other specs include a rated power consumption of 1.1W under read/write load and an optional encryption programming that provides full disk encryption.

Unfortunately, the price for this new 256GB hasn't been announced, but it should be available as soon it finds its way to retail/e-tail shelves.

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a pic or it didnt happen ;)

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

well this will cost a lot at the beginning but with more and more ppl buying the drive, the cost will drop. Also, competition will build similar drive in the near futur, so price is going to drop for sure. We just don't know when hehe

[bigmehdi]

I don't trust too much these numbers anyway ...

Until I see reviewers complaining that the SSD writes are as slow as an old 5400rpm hard drive

like here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductRevie...N82E16820231221

[Smigit]

the price will most likely make this out of most people's reach

It'll be as expensive as sin, but the good news is that the more this technology progresses the more price drops we should see on the lower end models. Hopefully 128GB models or so will see a drop in price with the introduction of the 256GB.

For me personally, 128GB is where I would start considering one for a laptop (although 256 is preferable) and 64GB of flash memory for a portable multimedia device such as an mp3 player or iPhone. Anything less for those devices and I personally will go a HDD over SSD simply due to the amount of data I'd like to use with each.