It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that SSDs were insanely expensive and ludicrously small. There’s no word on what Samsung’s newly announced SSD drives will cost, but they’re certainly not small — or slow.
Akihabara News reports on the new drives, announced in Korea. They’ll come as SATA 3 drives with capacities of either 256GB or 512GB and a claimed 520/MB/s sequential read speed and 400MB/s sequential write speed. Stupidly fast, in other words, which suggests to me that they might be just a touch on the expensive side. [Samsung via Akihabara News]
MotorMouth
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM… but worth every penny. Those speeds are just insane!
Nicholas
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 11:50 AMDo want. Those larger ones would then make it reasonable to put *everything* in your laptop on that drive, which would be so nice.
Mike
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:07 PMVertex 3 already can claim the same, albiet not at 512Gb sizes.
I’d be interested to see the pricing range for these as well
warcroft
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:13 PMMeans nothing without prices.
Dave
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:21 PMThat’s great, but they’re not going to become mainstream until they do something about the prices. They don’t need to get any faster, however they really could do with about a 50% price cut
MotorMouth
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:38 PMIt depends what you use your computer for. I’d take a speed increase over a price cut every time. Replacing the HDD in my Dell M4400 with an SSD made it almost twice as fast for what I use it for.
Dave
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 8:03 PMThat’s my point though – it won’t be twice as fast replacing that SSD with a new one, the actual difference would be marginal at best.
glennc
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 3:11 PMeasily the best upgrade you can do for a PC or notebook.
Ollie
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 12:42 PMErrr wut? OCZ & Corsair already have drives that fast… it’s just the SF controller.
Samsung have just released a higher density chip, which will probably be in the next OCZ & Corsair drives as well anyway.
Sam
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 1:02 PMYea, my OCZ Vertex III (sata 3) 60gbx2 with sequential read speed of 550mb/sec and write speed of 525mb/sec
Sam
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 1:03 PMI am also aware those are not great sizes, but it fit my need/budget perfectly
Todd
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 4:18 PMJust finished reinstalling Windows on my Vertex 3 60GB, and wow not quite sure why I waited so long…… Considering it only cost me $139 I cannot complain!
Vaykant
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 6:08 PMI have 4x 120Gb OCZ Vertex 3 running in a raid 0 array – now that is stupidly fast.
Also consider the OCZ Revo drive – I have it running in a media center pc. It’s fast AND quiet (accesses the network for media files).
DarthDVD
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 3:12 PMWhat this dones mean we have more competitors’s in the SSD Market, and that means?
Lower Prices!!! (hopefuly)
I’m hoping on adding another 512gb drive to my computer and then Raid0 it. 1tb drive at close to x2 the speed of a normal ssd (using the Crucial 512Gb Drives as its hit my upper sweet spot for price/proformance) may switch to Samsung if the price is right.