While it tries to figure out how to tackle the two new lawsuits bestowed upon it, Samsung has given the green light for the mass production of 256GB solid state drives. Coming in a 2.5-inch form factor, the beefy new drives have SATA 3.0 Gbps interfaces, make use of MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash chips and offer sequential read and write speeds of 220 MB/s and 200 MB/s respectively.

"While SSD’s have always been touted for their performance, Samsung is turning the storage industry upside down now with an SSD that delivers truly disruptive performance," said Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor. "Getting our exceptionally high performing 256GB SSD in a notebook is analogous to having a 15,000rpm drive, without all of its size, noise, power and heating drawbacks."

The 256GB SSDs have a power consumption of 1.1W while reading/writing and is available with optional proprietary encryption programming that provides full disk encryption. Samsung wouldnt state any price tag though.

Source: TС Magazine