For many people, the verdict to head to flash-based storage was one wrought with compromise: suffer through a year of ramen to afford a capacious SSD, or splurge on steak and accept a cramped one. While we await our platterless future, Samsung keeps on chuggin’, having just begun volume production of a speedier line of solid state drives it calls the PM830. Available in 128, 256 or 512GB flavors, they tout 20nm-class MLC NAND flash and SATA 6Gb/s support — which equates to 500MB/s reads and 350MB/s writes, or almost double last year’s model . Before you reach for the plastic, know that the road is out there only to OEMs — , computer manufacturers — with the firm promising consumer-friendly goodies for all you DIY types soon. Obviously, no word on when that’ll be or how much they’ll cost, but at the very least the PR after the break’s free, right?
SEOUL, South Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, an international leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, announced today volume production of SSDs (solid state drives) that support the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 interface with data transmissions at six gigabits per second (6Gb/s). The brand new high-performance PM830 SSDs* are available in at as much as 512 gigabyte (GB) densities.
“Samsung’s new line up of advanced SSDs will raise the performance bar to the subsequent level for ultra-slim notebooks and tablets and accelerate growth of the marketplace for high-performance SSDs”
Samsung’s new high-speed SSDs are ideally fitted to be used in high-performance OEM notebooks and tablets. Sample production of the SATA 6Gb/s 512GB SSDs began in May, with volume production initiated earlier this month. The hot drives are expected to interchange SATA 3Gb/s-based SSDs by year-end.
“Samsung’s new line up of advanced SSDs will raise the performance bar to the subsequent level for ultra-slim notebooks and tablets and accelerate growth of the marketplace for high-performance SSDs,” said Wanhoon Hong, executive vice chairman, memory sales & marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. “The industry is predicted to quickly embrace SATA 6Gb/s-based SSDs, which will also help increase market interest in 256GB and better densities significantly,” he added.
The SATA 6Gb/s SSD shortens system boot-up time to about 10 seconds, while its high-performance allows users to download as much as five DVD video files in below a minute.
The 512GB SSD utilizes Samsung’s most advanced 20 nanometer (nm) class** 32Gigabit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND memory chip incorporating the toggle DDR interface. A proprietary NAND controller facilitates exceptional performance levels that take full good thing about the toggle DDR architecture and the SATA 6Gb/s interface. The brand new SSD doubles the performance of a SATA 3Gb/s drive, with sequential read speeds of 500 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speeds of 350MB/s.
The drive also features the industry’s highest level of security, which uses an AES 256-bit encryption algorithm to give protection to personal or corporate data from unauthorized access.
Samsung’s SATA 6Gb/s SSDs come in 512GB, 256GB and 128GB densities. The brand new high-performance SSD line-up is concentrated to be used in premium OEM notebooks, and tablets.
In response to market research firm IDC, the worldwide outlook for client-side SSDs is predicted to grow ten-fold from 11 million units in 2011 to 100 million units in 2015. Moreover, the usage of NAND in 256GB SSDs is forecast to greater than double from 19 percent of all NAND utilized in SSDs in 2011 to 42 percent in 2015. Further, demand for 512GB SSDs is predicted to grow from a zero.3 percent portion in 2011 to 8 percent in 2015, also underscoring the growing interest in higher density SSDs.
About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a world leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the corporate contains nine independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized as among the many fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a number one producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, cell phones and TFT-LCDs. For more info, please visit www.samsung.com.
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* Editors’ Note 1: The PM830 SSD is accessible to OEMs just for installation into new PCs or other devices. a shopper version of the drive that are used as an upgrade for existing devices might be forthcoming and announced at a later date.
** Editors’ Note 2: 20nm-class means a process technology node somewhere between 20 and 29 nanometers.
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