Samsung SSDs aiming for low cost PC market.

Posted on 27 August 2008, Last updated on 11 November 2019 by

Forget the low cost PC market Samsung, there’s a million people out there that could benefit from a bit of SSD love on their daily compute.

"We’ve refined our manufacturing techniques and redesigned our low-density SSDs to get what the @low-priced PC market is looking for in the way of improved cost"

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What I suspect is happening here is that Samsung have designed a product that can be made in the millions for direct sale to netbook OEMs. You might find these on Ebay at some point but don’t expect them to be easy to get hold of for the average punter.

"Samsung’s new MLC-based SSD at 32GB capacity will read data (sequentially) at 90MB/s and write it (sequentially) at 70MB/s – performance levels much greater than low-density SSDs on the market today. The 16GB reads at 90MB/s and writes at 45MB/s, while the 8GB reads at 90MB/s and writes at 25MB/s."

VIA GottabeMobile. Source AkihabaraNews.

5 Comments For This Post

  1. alex ong says:

    I have a EeePC 8G model and hoping I could upgrade my present PCI-e 8GB SSD to 32GB MLC-based Samsung SSD. How could I be informed of furthur development in these?

  2. chippy says:

    You might find the news here if you keep checking back but my recommendation is a google alert.

    http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=Samsung+SSD+MLC&ie=UTF-8

    Steve.

  3. ProDigit says:

    Exchanging a SLC with a MLC? O.o

    I wouldn’t suggest that; unless you’re running Xandros or another lightwheight Linux OS!(non-Ubuntu).

    Allthough the burst read/write values seem good, I wonder if the Random read/write will perform good as well…

    I expect drives like this to have several tens to a hundred of milliseconds latency in random enviroments, basically giving it 3-7MB/s throughput in random mode.
    Unless you can somehow tweak your OS to perform on an SSD, you can expect boottimes above 2 minutes.

  4. Mark says:

    Samsung 32GB SSDs performing at 70MB/s & 90MB/s seem poor compared to OCZ 128GB SSDs performing at 98MB/s & 170MB/s – especially with OCZ prices below £300/$600.

    I just wish that OCZ would produce them in the 1.8″ PATA/ZIF format…

  5. Mark says:

    A few links for the faster OCZ products…

    http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_core_series_v2_sata_ii_2_5-ssd

    http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=55VL

    http://www.nextdaypc.com/main/products/details.aspx?PID=5267455&rsmainid=ND0130014

    If only my UMPC had a SATA 2.5″ disk instead of a 1.8″ PATA/ZIF…

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