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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
 Great news on the SSD front. Announced back in January, Samsung is at the moment mass producing its 1.8- and 2.5-inch SSDs in equally 64GB and 128GB capacities. And since these SATA II SSDs are based on MLC -- 64 MLC NAND flash chips of 16 gigabits each in the 9.5-mm thick 128GB SSD -- you can be expecting them to be cheap by comparison to SLC-based SSDs and faster by contrast to traditional laptop hard disk drives while lasting about 20 times longer than the anticipated 4-5 year life span of that mechanical spinner.
We're talking 70MB/s writes and 90MB/s reads and power utilization rated at just 0.2-watts idle or 0.5 watts when active -- far less than any of the models (including the SSDs tested by LAPTOP) experienced by Tom's which should help put any battery consumption concerns to rest. Heaping joyful on top of good, Samsung tells us to expect the 256GB SSD to go mass manufacture by the end of the year.
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