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Samsung intros 512GB SSD using new toggle-mode memory

updated 08:35 am EDT, Thu June 17, 2010

New chip platform ups capacity, lowers power use


Samsung has introduced a 512GB solid state drive that is the first to use the company's high performance toggle-mode DDR NAND flash memory. The SSD uses the 30nm-class 32 gigabit chip that the company began producing in November 2009. The chip's ability to operate at either 3.3V or 1.8V means the new drive offers higher performance with the same power consumption as older 16 gigabit NAND-based SSDs, according to Samsung. When paired with a SATA II interface, the new drive can provide a maximum sequential read speed of 250MB per second and a 220MB per second sequential write speed.

Samsung expects the new SSD will be used in high-end notebooks and plans to begin production in July. The company didn't announce pricing information and will most likely ship the drive directly to computer builders.






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  1. facebook_David

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    Price guess?

    Anyone going to hazard a guess on price? I'd love one in my MacBook Pro, but I bet I'd have to sell my condo...


  1. JeffHarris

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    06/17, 09:11am | report spam | reply

    Yours for a Kidney!

    Why are actual prices never mentioned in these announcements?


  1. Jazzbeau

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    MacBook Air rev. A?

    Will it fit in the MacBook Air rev. A (to replace the immediately-filled 64GB SSD)?


  1. Jonathan-Tanya

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    06/17, 10:50am | report spam | reply

    Samsung drives...

    Samsung was one of those companies that released underperforming drives in the early days of SSD.

    Back when you expected an SSD to use less power, but some models actually used more...or you expected it to be faster, but some models actually had horrible write performance issues that would cripple the performance of the system.

    That really set the SSD marketplace back a bit.

    For a year or so there, you pretty much had to stick with Intel, however that is no longer true...there are multiple good sources for SSD now, and most all of them are low power and high performing. Anything built on an Intel/Marvell or Sandforce controller is going to rock compared to a tradtional disk.

    Is Samsung doing better? I wouldn't be entirely sure of it - the fact that its only going to OEMs, means, like some of their drives sold on Dell and HP servers, they may never get fully vetted by the IT press.


    I mean I literally never found, despite searching far and wide a full write-up on their old enterprise 50GB SSDs, and the vendors point blank refused to release performance details that I requested.

    So....I'm glad that they are doing well with their manufacture of the memory chips, and I wouldn't hesitate to buy an SSD that had samsung memory in it...but I would want one that I knew had a controller with a proven track record of performance....i.e. not a Samsung branded drive, that has no meaning to me, at this time, until they prove themselves.


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