New Samsung SSDs - Smaller! Cheaper! Faster!

By Nick Mansell on Wed 27 August 2008

Samsung SSDBoring old hard drives are looking decidedly passée with the growth in the popularity of solid state drives. But while the likes of the Eee is  heralds the beginning of the end for spinning platters, replacement SSD technology remains stubbornly expensive.

That could be about to change with the announcement by Samsung of a new low-cost range of SSDs in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities. Read on.

They may not hold colossal amounts of data but they are fast - with the 32GB model boasting 90MBps read speeds and 70MBps write speeds. They're small too, at roughly a third the size of a 2.5-inch drive.

Samsung hasn't released pricing information yet but early guestimates suggest they could be up to half the price of existing SSDs. We should know more when they start rolling off the production lines next month.

[Press release]

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