Samsung launches tiny terabyte solid state drive
Lazarus Sauti
South Korean multinational conglomerate company Samsung
recently launched the “industry’s first” 1TB mSATA Solid State Drive (SSD).
As part of Samsung’s 840
EVO series introduced back in July, the new 1TB mSATA 840 EVO SSD is approximately
a quarter size of a 2.5” SSD, and offers the same level of high density and
high performance.
That is a one followed
by12 zeroes of bytes, all squashed into one fun-loving piece of speedy hardware.
The 1TB mSATA SSD has a
thickness of 3.85mm and weighs 8.5g.
Samsung further notes that
its size and weight are approximately 40 percent less than a typical hard disk
drive.
This 840 EVO line-up might
be more cost-effective using triple-level cell (TLC) flash and Samsung notes it
has a maximum read and write speed of 540MB/s and 530MB/s.
As announced earlier this
year, The 840 EVO mSATA SSD lineup is available in 120GB, 250GB, 500GB and now
1TB.
Senior vice president,
memory brand product marketing, Unsoo Kim said: “With the new mSATA SSD line-up
offering up to 1TB of memory and an optimised software tool, we expect that
consumers can enjoy high storage volume and performance on ultra-slim notebooks
besides desktop PCs.”
“We will continue to bring
leading-edge SSD products and software solutions with improved quality and
reliability, while working on offering higher consumer satisfaction and
strengthening competitiveness of our branded memory business.”
The new drive is expected to
be used as a secondary (or slave) drive in upcoming notebooks.
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