The SATA II SSD has a sequential write speed of 100MBps and sequential read speed of 120MBps. It combines a 50 nm-class, single-level-cell (SLC) 8Gb flash chip with a high-speed SATA controller and supporting software.
The 64GB SATA II SSD is based on Samsung’s cutting-edge NAND technology with dramatically improved performance specs, said Jim Elliott, director, NAND flash marketing at Samsung Semiconductor.
The SATA II SSD has a 3.0Gbps interface speed, which is twice that of SATA I predecessor and it requires less than half the power compared with the 1.9 watts consumed by hard drives used in notebook PCs. It uses one-tenth of the power consumed by enterprise-class 15,000rpm hard drives in servers.
Samsung has also launched 32GB Parallel ATA (PATA) SSD in March 2006 and a 64GB version using the SATA I interface in March 2007. In October 2007, Samsung introduced a 64GB multi level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory chip, which uses a 30nm class process technology for high density storage.
Another semiconductor manufacturer, SanDisk, also offers SSD SATA 5000 2.5- inch SSD in 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64GB capacities.
Source: ComputerWire daily updates
