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DO WANT! Samsung 256 GB SSD — Brooklynian

DO WANT! Samsung 256 GB SSD

carnivore
carnivore
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080526/tc_afp/skoreaelectronicsitsamsungchip

If this is priced anywhere closed to reasonable, I'm replacing the HD in my MBP as soon as this comes out!

Comments

  • whyfi
    whyfi
    I would expect it to be almost as much, if not more, than your MBP...

    Give it a year.
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    Random access is great for read. But what's the write speed like? Getting into swap with a hard drive is bad enough, but I can recover. Imagine swapping to flash.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    Via Engadget
    ...the MLC-flash SATA II drive has speeds of 200MBps read and 160MBps sequential write.
  • daver
    daver
    dats pretty damn fast...
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    WhyFi wrote: I would expect it to be almost as much, if not more, than your MBP...

    Give it a year.
    http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/25/samsung.256gb.ssd/
    More important still is the cost of the technology behind the drive, Samsung says. Rather than use costly single-level cell (SLC) technology, the company has managed to develop a multi-level cell (MLC) storage drive that transfers as quickly as the best SLC storage while costing much less to produce than past SSDs.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    Ahh! "much less to produce" probably = $500ish.
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