Samsung Develops World’s Fastest and Largest Capacity 2.5-inch
At the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum held here today, Samsung Electronics, announced today that it has developed the world’s fastest, 2.5-inch, 256 Gigabyte (GB) multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using a SATA II interface. Samsung’s new 256GB SSD is also the thinnest drive with the largest capacity to be offered with a SATA II interface.
Considered to be the fastest at a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speed of 160MB/s which is about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD.
Once released, it will be the thinnest in its category at only 9.5 millimeters (mm) thick, and measures 100.3×69.85 mm.
