Samsung electronics has developed a 1.8 inch 64GB flash memory based solid state drive. The product will be launched in second half of year 2007.According to Samsung, the new flash-SSD is based on an eight gigabit (Gb) single-level-cell (SLC) NAND, which provides significantly higher performance over conventional SSDs.
The performance of the new SLC flash-SSD have been increased by 20 percent for read and 60 percent for write over the 32GB flash-SSD Samsung introduced last year, that means the new SSD’s ability to outperform conventional rotating-media hard drives is even greater than had been anticipated.
Reading at 64MB/s and writing at 45MB/s, the new drive is significantly outperforms the traditional hard discs which give 15MB/s and 7MB/s for read, write speeds respectively. Power consumption is also less compared to hard disc drives at 0.5 Watts against 1.5 Watts.
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