It is good news for users who like SSD (solid state disk). Samsung has begun mass producing its 256GB SSD. Not only that, but SSD will fasten the speed than previous versions.

Despite may not be sold to retail, 256GB SSD will be in the hands of the vendor system so that we can hope that in the future, the netbook will use the faster SSD. Unfortunately, Samsung refused to reveal the price of its newest drive. Just enough information, Intel gives price U.S. $ 595, for its 80GB model, and some PC vendors sell it with a minimum price of U.S. $ 700.

The Samsung SSD is not the fastest (the data transfer rate under the 100MB / s). However, according to Samsung, its 256GB SSD will be at least two times faster than the 64GB and 128GB versions of it, with the rate sequential read 220MB / s and write rate sequential 200MB / s.

The performance, claim Samsung, sufficient to store 25 high-definition movies in time 21 minutes and display applications 10 times faster than 7200rpm notebook hard drive. Meanwhile, the power consumption of the drive is mentioned only 1.1 watts.

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