Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest computer chip maker, said yesterday it has developed a new solid state drive which is expected to replace hard disk drives in laptop computers.
Samsung said its 256-gigabyte solid state drive (SSD) for data storage has a sequential read speed of 200MB per second (MB/s) and sequential write speed of 160MB/s and it is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives. The company plans to begin production of SSDs this year.
The new SSD "represents a bold step in the shift to notebooks with significantly improved performance and larger storage capacities," the company said in a statement.
Along with the high speed of the drive, Samsung is also claiming high reliability.Quoted power consumption is 0.9 watts in "active mode", the company said.
Samsung described the new SSD – which is 6.35cm long and 9.5mm thick – as the world’s smallest of its kind. It can read up to 200 megabytes of data per second.
It said, citing market research agency iSuppli, that 35 per cent of notebook computers would use the SSD by 2012.
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