Eggie’s Hardware Blog

Samsung has announced a record-breaking solid state drive, which also sports a decent storage capacity, and it’s made from MLC (Multi-Layer Cell) flash memory chips. Samsung has specified the sequential read speed to 200MB/s and the write speed to 160MB/s, which is a big step up from the current record holder. Previous record-breaking solid state drives have been using SLC (Single-Layer Cell) flash chips, which are in general faster, but also sports less density. The new drive use the SATA 3Gbps interface and is of the 2.5″ formfactor. The MTBF is estimated to 1 million hours. The drive will go into mass production before the end of the year, consumer samples in September, with a 1.8″ model coming in Q4.

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