South Korean electronics giant Samsung continues to improve the capacity of flas-based solid state drives, announcing this week a new 256 GB, 2.5-inch drive with an SATA II interface. And the MLC 256GB SSD isn’t just a drop-in replacement for existing 2.5-inch drives: it actually outperforms them, offering a sequential read speed of 200 MB/s and a write speed of 160 MB/s.
“With development of the 256GB SSD, the notebook PC is on the brink of a second stage of evolution,” said Samsung Semiconductor’s VP of memory marketing Jimm Elliot, in a statement. “This change is comparable to the evolution from the Sony Walkman to NAND memory-based MP3 players, representing an initial step in the shift to thinner, smaller, SSD-based notebooks with significantly improved performance and more than ample storage.”
