Samsung Develops World’s Fastest and Largest Capacity 2.5-inch

By jon on May 29, 2008 No Comments

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.