Samsung Scales Down SSDs For Netbooks

Category: Storage / Hard Drives
Posted: August 27, 2008 04:44AM
Author: jammin

Solid state drives have continued to develop at a pace, improving in performance and reducing in cost. SSDs are particularly suited for application in the many netbooks we have seen flooding the market recently, so news that Samsung has been adjusting its production to pump out some low cost, low density drives is promising. The drives in question will come in 8, 16 and 32GB capacities and be a mere 30% the size of a 2.5" SSD. Performance isn't too bad for the SATA II equipped units either, particularly the 32GB version, which should achieve reads of 90MB/s and writes of 70MB/s. The 16GB and 8GB versions maintain the same read speeds, but write speeds drop off to 45MB/s and 25MB/s respectively. Samsung say the drives are highly cost effective to manufacture, though how friendly they will actually be on your wallet is yet to be seen. Mass production starts next month.