http://www.gadgetadvisor.com Cutting Through the Cutting Edge Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:09:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/computer-hardware/samsung-25gb-and-50gb-enterprise-ssds http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/computer-hardware/samsung-25gb-and-50gb-enterprise-ssds#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:37:08 +0000 Gadget Advisor http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/?p=627 Samsung has started mass-production of 2.5" 25GB and 50GB SSDs for the enterprise segment.  The drives are built using single-level-cell NAND flash technology (consumer-based SSDs are generally constructed using multi-level-cell NAND because it is cheaper, but also less durable).  The new drives offer 100MB/s sequential read and 80MB/s sequential write speeds, consuming only 1.5W while operating and 0.3W idle.  While the Samsung solid state drives offer improved capacity for SLC and maintain a 100 times greater input/output operations per second (IOPS) lead over typical 2.5" 15,000-RPM hard drives, the performance does not come close to that provided by the Intel X25-E Extreme SSDs.

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