Samsung Announces Production Of 256GB SSD Drives By End Of 2008

Posted on May 27, 2008

Samsung has announced that it has developed a 2.5 inch, 256GB solid state drive (SSD). The declaration essentially quadruples the current storage capacity of 64GB found in cutting-edge laptops such as the MacBook Air. Samsung claims that the new SSD has a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second and sequential write speed of 160MBps, the fastest SSD data transfer rates to date. Samsung’s drive will use multi-level cell...