Samsung Intros World’s Fastest 2.5” MLC-based 256GB SSD with SATA II Interface [Samsung Multi Level Cell SSD]

Having just announced their new HD103UI EcoGreen F1 1TB hard disk, Samsung chose the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum to announce that they have developed the world’s fastest MLC-based 256GB SATA solid state drive which, apart from boasting sequential read speeds of 200 megabytes per second (over two times faster than that offered by typical HDDs) and 160MBps sequential write speeds also happens to be the thinnest and largest capacity drive to sport a SATA II interface.

Measuring in at a mere 9.5mm in thickness, Samsung’s new 2.5” 256GB SSD is hailed by Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc, as placing notebooks on the brink of ‘a second stage of evolution…comparable to the evolution from the Sony Walkman to NAND memory-based MP3 players.’

Purportedly offering a mean time between failures (MTBF) rate of one million hours, Samsung’s new 2.5” 256GB SSD comes complete with sophisticated data encryption and is due to become available some time in September with a 1.8″ verision detailed as becoming avaiable in the latter part of the year – though unit pricing concerning either model at this early stage is yet to be confirmed (don’t expect them to be cheap).

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