Endless Paradigm

If you don't want to know the technicalities, and are already drooling about it, just read this little pc, else read the full article below!

Engadget Wrote:Uh oh, Samsung's just announced their first 256GB SSD. Not that you needed to know anything more than that to trigger salivation, but the MLC-flash SATA II drive has speeds of 200MBps read and 160MBps sequential write. Not like wee'll be able to afford it or anything, but they'll be available come September, with a 1.8-inch version due in Q4.

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Samsung Electronics announced today the world's fastest, 2.5", 256GB multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface.

The new Samsung 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface.
Performance data of the new Samsung 256GB SSD features a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speed of 160MB/s.
The Samsung MLC-based 2.5-inch 256GB SSD is about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD. Furthermore, the new 256 GB SSD is only 9.5 millimeters (mm) thick, and measures 100.3x69.85 mm.

Samsung’s new MLC 256GB SSD, besides being comparable in speed to an SLC-based SSD, also boasts reliability equal to that of SLC SSDs, with a mean time between failures (MTBF) of one million hours, while costing considerably less. Power consumption is also exceptionally low at 0.9 watts in active mode.
Samsung is expected to begin mass producing the 2.5-inch, 256GB SSD by year end, with customer samples available in September. A 1.8-inch version of the 256GB SSD is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2008.

According to a Q1 2008 report by the semiconductor market research firm iSuppli, the SSD market will grow at an annualized average of 124 percent during the four-year period from 2008 until 2012. iSuppli now projects SSD sales to increase by an additional 35 percent in 2009 over what it projected last year, 51 percent more in 2010, and 89 percent more in 2011, and continue to show dramatic increases in subsequent years. See this SSD market forecast graph below

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well the 64gb ssd is like £1000 here so fudge no

that is so cool but it will also be expensive as spoon

this is one blazing fast drive though... one day SSDs will be as cheap as spoon... that time wee will have moved on to Virtualized memory or something...

....   the case is nice

Sequential writes of 160Mbps is pretty impressive...

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Sequential writes of 160Mbps is pretty impressive...

Agreed.

But I will never own one.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Sequential writes of 160Mbps is pretty impressive...

Imagine the amount of movies/games/hershey kisses wee can get transferred over in seconds.. :) Isn't it sorta like a external hard drive / flash drive?

finally this is whot i want!! harddrives slow pc's down!

demonchild Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Sequential writes of 160Mbps is pretty impressive...

Imagine the amount of movies/games/hershey kisses wee can get transferred over in seconds.. :) Isn't it sorta like a external hard drive / flash drive?

HDDs' sequential writes typically don't indicate speed very well, cause the main slowdown is seek times.
With SSDs, there isn't much in terms of seek times, so it should achieve real world speeds much closer to its rated sequential speed (but then, IDK).