Samsung announced Thursday it has begun mass production of a 256 gigabyte solid state drive designed for use in notebook an desktop PCs. The drives round out Samsung’s line of SSDs, which includes 8, 16, and 32 GB SSD models for low-density designs and 64 and 128 GB for higher densities, the company said. “The significance of this launch is in that Samsung is improving SSD performance and it shows that the industry is still improving SSD technology,” Jeffrey Janukowicz, an analyst at IDC, told TechNewsWorld.
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Posted by: Walaika Haskins November 20, 2008 12:09 PMSamsung announced Thursday it has begun mass production of a 256 gigabyte solid state drive designed for use in notebook an desktop PCs. The drives round out Samsung’s line of SSDs, which includes 8, 16, and 32 GB SSD models for low-density designs and 64 and 128 GB for higher densities, the company said. “The significance of this launch is in that Samsung is improving SSD performance and it shows that the industry is still improving SSD technology,” Jeffrey Janukowicz, an analyst at IDC, told TechNewsWorld.