New Brief: Samsung Launches First PCI-Express SSDs for Ultra-thin Laptops
The other day, Samsung Electronics announced the start of mass production of the industry's first solid-state drives for ultra-thin laptops using the PCI-Express (PCIe) interface. The company began to provide new SSD drives for laptops of major PC makers since the beginning of this quarter. The XP491 model lineup consists of 512, 256, and 128-gigabyte SSDs.
Using a PCIe bus makes it easy to overcome the limitations of the SATA interface at a maximum data transfer rate of 6 Gb / s. The sequential read speed is 1400 MB / s and is the highest rate of performance for a PCIe 2.0 interface. This allows an SSD carrier to read 500 GB of data in just six minutes, that is, about seven times faster than a regular hard drive (which takes at least 40 minutes to perform the same task), and more than 2.5 times faster than the fastest modern SATA SSD drive.
Another distinctive feature of the XP941 drives is the M.2 form factor, which is only 80 x 22 mm in size and weighs about 6 grams, which is about 1/9 of the 2.5-inch 54-gram SATA SSDs. The total XP941 volume is about 1/7 of the 2.5-inch SSD, thereby freeing up much more space for a laptop battery, and generally providing much wider opportunities for increasing the mobility of a PC.
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Samsung intends to increase the production of high-performance NAND Flash memory using 10-nm class technology, thereby consolidating its leadership in the field of PCIe solid-state drives for ultra-thin PCs and laptops. In addition, in the near future, the company plans to introduce the next generation of enterprise-class solid-state drives NVMe.
Using a PCIe bus makes it easy to overcome the limitations of the SATA interface at a maximum data transfer rate of 6 Gb / s. The sequential read speed is 1400 MB / s and is the highest rate of performance for a PCIe 2.0 interface. This allows an SSD carrier to read 500 GB of data in just six minutes, that is, about seven times faster than a regular hard drive (which takes at least 40 minutes to perform the same task), and more than 2.5 times faster than the fastest modern SATA SSD drive.
Another distinctive feature of the XP941 drives is the M.2 form factor, which is only 80 x 22 mm in size and weighs about 6 grams, which is about 1/9 of the 2.5-inch 54-gram SATA SSDs. The total XP941 volume is about 1/7 of the 2.5-inch SSD, thereby freeing up much more space for a laptop battery, and generally providing much wider opportunities for increasing the mobility of a PC.
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Samsung intends to increase the production of high-performance NAND Flash memory using 10-nm class technology, thereby consolidating its leadership in the field of PCIe solid-state drives for ultra-thin PCs and laptops. In addition, in the near future, the company plans to introduce the next generation of enterprise-class solid-state drives NVMe.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/184080/
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