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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has unveiled its 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB solid state disc (SSD) with a super-fast SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface. The new SATA II SSD combines a 50 nm-class, single-level-cell (SLC) 8Gb flash chip with a Samsung proprietary, high-speed SATA controller and supporting software. With a sequential write speed of 100MBps (megabytes per second) and sequential read speed of 120MBps, the SATA II SSD is aimed to deliver the high performance from notebook PCs to servers storage. The new SATA II SSD has a 3.0 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) interface speed which is twice as fast as its SATA I predecessor.

“The 64GB SATA II SSD is based on Samsung’s cutting-edge NAND technology with dramatically improved performance specs that are taking system performance to a whole new level of efficiency,” said Jim Elliott, director, NAND flash marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Although it delivers higher performance, SATA II SSD requires only half as much power as the 1.9 watts consumed by hard drives now used in notebook PCs and only one-tenth the power consumed by enterprise-class 15,000rpm hard drives in servers.

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