Samsung just announced the world’s first sample of a Solid State Drives using the SATA II interface. Samsung has developed both a 1.8″ and a 2.5″ model with 64GB storage capacity where both use the SATA II interface which is suppose to result in an impressive write performance of 100 MB/s and a read speed of 120 MB/s. These are quite impressive figures, not just for the 1.8″ market but for the harddrive market as a whole. Samsung is pretty confident as it has designed the harddrive for high-end PCs and storage servers.
The flash memory circuits in Samsung’s new devices are 50nm SLC (Single-level-cell) chips sporting a density of 8Gb.
“The new SATA II SSD has a 3.0 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) interface speed which is twice as fast as its SATA I predecessor. Moreover, the SATA II SSD requires only half as much power as the 1.9 watts consumed by hard drives now used in notebook PCs and only one-tenth the power consumed by enterprise-class 15,000rpm hard drives in servers.”
Samsung hasn’t revealed the price of its coming SSD units, but we’re certainly looking forward to hearing more about these, especially benchmarks. Below is a table comparing the specifications of various 1.8″ harddrives, both mechanical and SSDs.
