The new 830 series will utilise SATA Revision 3.0 technology, which will give it potential speeds a face-melting 6 gigabits per second. This effectively doubles the speed of Samsung’s previous drives, the SSD 470 series. Other than the speed boost and some gussied up looks there’s not much different, but who cares? To quote the movie Jerry Maguire, “You had me at ‘twice as fast’.”
The drives will be available this October in capacities of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. They can fit in 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drive bays, and you can get an adaptor kit so it can be used via USB. No word on pricing yet.
DarthDVD
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:36 AMCOST COST COST COST…..
need a cost so i can start saving!
Sam
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:38 AMOCZ have already done it with their Vertex III series, which have a read speed of 550mb/sec and write speed of 525mb/sec, will be interesting to see how fast these are.
Sam
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:39 AMMight I add, the 60gb vertex III is $150, and a 120gb model is $270, should be a rough idea of what these ones will be
DarthDVD
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:39 PMat least there will be more on the market forcing the prices down :D
Sam
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:59 PMHopefully, I am planning on getting dual 60gb vertex IIIs to run in RAID 0 in a few weeks, its going to be extremely fast haha
Leon
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 6:16 PMthe Vertex series need a pretty full on raid controller, I had 2 of these in raid-0 in an intel server board..theonboard raid constantly failed(intel later told me that this board does not support sata3 drives). Tried it on an Adaptec sas/sata controller and p400i controller(worked fine)
Nathan
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 2:18 PMYeah I keep thinking of delaying on SSD but I remember paying premium for 15GB drives. like $300 or so when I first starting buying and building my own computers in 1999/2000.
Nathan
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 2:20 PMnot comparing sizes of hard drive types, just the price of cutting edge HDD. I would have a 120GB SSD in today’s money or a couple of 60GB.
Just in my own head I would think that is too much now. How your mentality changes.