Barthos Computers Blog

The company announced the new drive earlier today at the Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei and told attendees that it will be charging ahead with its SSD drive technology and put this new 256 GB model in 1.8″ and 2.5″ version into mass production by year-end.

The drive is based on the company’s multi-level cell (MLC) and will be equipped with a SATA II interface. Samsung promises that the 2.5″ version, which is just 9.5 mm thick, will hit data read rates of 200 MB/s and sequential read rates of 160 MB/s. WD?s 300 GB Velociraptor 3.5″ hard drive, considered the fastest traditional hard drive on the market today, was benchmarked by major hardware review sites and achieved data read and write rates of just over 100 MB/s.

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