Samsung has announced a new 512GB SSD that employs toggle-mode DDR NAND helping high-end notebooks to achieve greater performance and reliability. The toggle-mode DDR structure coupled with SATA 3.0Gbps interface gains a max. sequential read speed of 250MB/s and read speed to up to 220MB/s, which is three times faster than conventional HDDs or can copy two 4GB DVDs in under a minute.
Furthermore, Samsung has developed a low-power controller for toggle-mode DDR that increases performance without increasing power consumption and continuously monitors user’s frequency of use to automatically enable low-power mode, extending notebook’s battery life.
The 512GB SSD uses 30nm 32Gb chip and comes with 256-bit AES encryption, Windows 7 TRIM support.
Mass production of the 512GB SSDs will start from next month.
This is awesome to see that solid state prices are starting to rival the traditional platters. Imagine having a RAID full of these? Makes me wish I was rich.