Samsung announces new SATA 6Gb/s SSDs

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Semiconductor technology solutions provider Samsung Electronics Co unveiled its latest range of solid state drives (SSDs) that support Serial ATA Revision 3.0 interface with data transmissions at six gigabits per second (6Gb/s).

Dubbed as PM830, the new line of Samsung’s SATA 6Gb/s SSDs are available in three ranges, 512GB, 256GB and 128GB, which target high-performance OEM notebooks and tablets.

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Samsung, which started sampling the 512GB SSDs in May and then initiated its mass production earlier this month, is expected to replace its SATA 3Gb/s-based SSDs by year-end.

“Samsung’s new line up of SSDs will raise the performance bar to the next level for ultra-slim notebooks and tablets and accelerate growth of the market for high-performance SSDs,” said Wanhoon Hong, executive vice president, memory sales and marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. “The industry is expected to quickly embrace SATA 6Gb/s-based SSDs, which also will help increase market interest in 256GB and higher densities significantly.

The SATA 6Gb/s SSD shortens system boot-up time to about 10 seconds, while its high-performance allows users to download up to five DVD video files in less than a minute, says Samsung in a release.

The 512GB SSD utilizes Samsung’s 20 nanometer (nm) class 32Gigabit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND memory chip incorporating the toggle DDR interface.

Samsung claims that the new SSD will double the performance of a SATA 3Gb/s drive, with sequential read speeds of 500 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write speeds of 350MB/s. and features AES 256-bit encryption algorithm.