Samsung Preps 64GB SSD

Samsung Preps 64GB SSD

The world leader in advanced memory technology, has become the first in the industry to sample 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB) solid state drives with a super-fast SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface. With a sequential write speed of 100MBps and sequential read speed of 120MBps, the SATA II SSD is poised to expand the market for solid state drives from notebook PCs to corporate servers and other high-performance storage applications.

"The 64GB SATA II SSD is based on Samsung's cutting-edge NAND technology with dramatically improved performance specs that are taking system performance to a whole new level of efficiency," says Jim Elliott, Director, NAND Flash Marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Market research firm Web-Feet Research estimates that the NAND flash-based SSD market is expected to show 74 percent compounded annual growth from 2007 through 2012 to reach $10 billion in 2012.


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