Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has introduced a new high-speed 512GB solid state drive, utilizing high-performance toggle-mode DDR NAND. "The highly advanced features and characteristics of our new SSD were obtained as a direct result of an aggressive push for further development of our NAND flash technology, our SSD controller and our supportive SSD firmware," said Dong-Soo Jun, executive ... [ read the full article ]
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Aren't those transfer rates pretty typical of all current SSD? I wonder how the TRIM is coming along. Can we expect to see those rates drop off almost immediately?
i bought a SSD ages ago when they were a very new thing mine is 32GB and it gets the exact same rate's and already on the market are 512GB SSD's both 2.5 and 3.5 with higher rates and a SSD is always energy efficient so im just wondering why this was news worthy because samsung is catching up slowly ?
Originally posted by fordsrule: i bought a SSD ages ago when they were a very new thing mine is 32GB and it gets the exact same rate's and already on the market are 512GB SSD's both 2.5 and 3.5 with higher rates and a SSD is always energy efficient so im just wondering why this was news worthy because samsung is catching up slowly ?
There's a lot more to SSDs than just their advertised write speed. Look at the other 512GB (all two or three of them) SATA II SSDs currently on the market and you will find they advertise at most up to 180MB/s or 200MB/s write speeds with read speeds of 230MB/s... but in tests can they continuously achieve that? No, particularly not with random access which is important.
BTW, before anyone points out there are much faster SSDs available in 512GB capacities, remember they are PCI-Express SSDs, not SATA.
The biggest thing about the Samsung SSD is the toggle mode DDR and the encryption features, I would think.
Anyway, even though there are other 512GB SSDs on the market, I'm not sure of the criticism. I didn't stop writing about new iPods after the 2001 model with a 5GB HDD came out, and when Blu-ray players and burners first hit the market, we didn't write about one and totally ignore the competition that comes along, always slightly improving or offer just that little bit more than the previous player, with a more competitive price.
Originally posted by cart0181: Aren't those transfer rates pretty typical of all current SSD? I wonder how the TRIM is coming along. Can we expect to see those rates drop off almost immediately?
