Samsung brings 256GB SSDs to life!

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 26 May 2008 18:10

Opinion and Analysis

Another additional feature is ‘sophisticated data encryption’ which means the drive can’t just be read if stolen and placed into another computer, something that will make corporate IT people very happy.

The drive will go into mass production by the end of the year, although “customer samples” will be available by September. Stunningly, Samsung will squeeze the 256GB technology into a 1.8-inch enclosure by the end of the year too – imagine one of those in your iPhone or iPod!

iSuppli supplied some figures to Samsung suggesting the SSD market will grow by 124% between now and 2012, while sales are expected to increase by an addition 35% next year over what it previously projected for 2009, 51% more in 2010 and 89% more in 2011, “and continue to show dramatic increases in subsequent years.”

The 256GB SSD is only 9.5millimeters (mm) thick, and measures 100.3x69.85 mm. As we said, no pricing yet.

Still, I’ll bet that Steve Jobs gets a 1.8-inch model for Christmas from Samsung to put into his his MacBook Air, seeing that Apple buys so much memory for iPods and iPhones from Samsung and is one of Samsung’s very best customers.

If only I was on their Christmas list to get one, too!

See a photo here.