“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,”  stated Jim Elliot, who is the director of marketing for the NAND flash Department of Samsung Semiconductor inc.

Samsung has unveiled a Solid State Drive aimed at high-end PC and server storage markets. Up until now, the SSD options available to the average person were mostly for the mobile market.  This is due to the enormous power saving advantages of not having moving parts. SSDs typically use a third as much power as their physical motion counterparts, which saves battery power while performing about the same. These new drives use slightly more power than its predecessors (0.7 W vs 0.4 w), but perform up to five times as fast as normal 1.8" HDDs.

As with each previous incarnation from the NAND flash leaders, the new 64 GB drive has improved greatly in almost all areas. The new technology has some amazing specifications that will give any techie butterflies. With sequential write speeds of 100 MBps and read speeds of 120 MBps, these new drives blow away the fastest consumer grade devices of today. The rest of PATA/SATA market  sustains approximately 50-80 MBps read/write rates.

The drive employs a new  3.0 GBps Sata II interface and is available in 1.8" and 2.5" flavors. The storage medium utilizes 50nm Single-Level-Cell (SLC) flash memory chips, which are 8 GB per chip. All of this fits into a rather sleek metal case. FastSilicon.com can't wait to get our hands on a couple of these.

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