Friday, February 15th 2008
Samsung Begins Mass Production of 64GB SATA 3Gb/s Solid State Drives
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing of 64GB solid state drives (SSDs) utilizing the SATA 3Gb/s data interface. Some of you may be more familiar with the word SATA II, but SATA II and SATA 3Gb/s are two different terms and I prefer to stick with the right one - SATA 3Gb/s. Back on the story, Samsung said its 64GB SATA 3Gb/s SSD, which began shipping in limited quantities earlier this month, will be available as an option within the next few weeks in selected Dell and Alienware notebooks. Able to read data at 100MB per second and write data at 80MB per second, Samsung's new SSD is up to 60% faster than SATA I (1.5Gb/s) drives and performs two to five times faster than conventional hard disk drives (HDDs), according to the company. It also consumes nearly 75% less power than typical HDDs (1.45W compared to 2.1W) and at 73 grams, SSDs are much lighter than HDDs. The SATA II SSD is comprised primarily of single-level-cell NAND flash memory.
Source:
DigiTimes
22 Comments on Samsung Begins Mass Production of 64GB SATA 3Gb/s Solid State Drives
I have the feeling that solid-state disks are the future and will probably be used instead of mechanic drives sometime.
I googled and found out that 100Mb/s read speed is ultra high compared to a Transcend 8GB SATA solid-state disk which has only - read: 30MB/s, write: 28MB/s
Yes, I'm from the future.
I'm definitely going to wait for the price to go down though!!!
Reviewed by: Dave Miller
recipe for a happy database server:
1 x Dell Poweredge 2950 III
2 x Xeon E5345
8 x 4GB FB-DIMMs (32GB)
1 x PERC 6/i SAS/SATA Controller
1 x 8-drive 2.5" Backplane
8 x Samsung 64GB SSD Drives
Configure array to be RAID-10, install choice of operating system. Fire up MySQL and watch that baby churn - damn thing exceeded our expectations by a long way and its "cheap" compared with an enterprise SAN capable of handling the same IOPS ;-)
Only thing to ponder is how the SSD drives will handle repeated writes - apparantly that's "not a concern" according to manufacturers of these, but I'll have to wait 12 months and see.
Total cost:
'bout £8,000 for the server + support
'nother £4,500 for the SSDs
Benefits:
almost priceless ;) This sucker is fast.
We're a very happy user of these!
Sheeeet.... I need a drooling emoticon. A very big drooling emoticon!
Almost makes sense, since they're uber fast (think raptor prices here) and current SSD's are $500+ (if not $1K+)