Good news to all SSD technology fans, Samsung announced today that they have started mass producing 1.8-Inch & 2.5-Inch MLC-based Solid State Drives in 64GB and 128GB versions. These SATA II SSDs provide a reading speed of 90MB/s, writing speed of 70MB/s and power consumption of 0.2-watts in idle state and 0.5-watts in active state.

The 128GB MLC-based SSD consists of 64 MLC NAND flash memory chips of 16 gigabits each, optimized single-chip controller technology and advanced flash-management firmware technology. Enclosed in a brushed metallic casing, it measures 100mm x 69.8mm and is only 9.5mm thick.

Samsung plans to produce 256GB SSDs by the end of this year.

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