NewsBot Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 SSDs are now hitting sizes that are beginning to make them viable replacements for the magnetic counterparts. Samsung has introduced a new SSD offering in a 512GB configuration – boasting both capacity and speed, utilizing high-performance "toggle-mode" DDR NAND. "The highly advanced features and characteristics of our new SSD were obtained as a direct result of an aggressive push for further development of our NAND flash technology, our SSD controller and our supportive SSD firmware," said Dong-Soo Jun, executive vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Electronics. "Early introduction of this state-of-the-art toggle DDR solution will enable Samsung to play a major role in securing faster market acceptance of the new wave of high-end SSD technology," he added. The new 512GB SSD makes use of a 30 nanometer-class 32 gigabit chip that the company began producing last November. The toggle-mode DDR structure together with the SATA 3.0Gbps interface generates a maximum sequential read speed of 250 MBps and a 220MBps sequential write speed, both of which provide three-fold the performance of a typical hard disk drive. Samsung says that those speeds could mean that two 4GB DVD movies can be stored in just a minute. Samsung provides further gains in power efficiency by having developed a low-power controller specifically for toggle-mode DDR NAND. The resulting power throttling capability enables the drive's high-performance levels without any increase in power consumption over a 40nm-class 16Gb NAND-based 256GB SSD. The controller also analyzes frequency of use and preferences of the user to automatically activate a low-power mode that can extend a notebook's battery life for an hour or more (but probably only in best-case-scenarios). Samsung plans to begin volume production of the 512GB SSD next month. Source: MSFN View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 SSD is great. Nice with bigger SSD drives now. Hope it has a good price too. I run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" on a Intel X-25M G2 80 GB ssd, and it boots in 6 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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