Samsung’s 128GB MLC SSDs Now in Volume Production

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 1.8- and 2.5-inch multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSD) with a 128GB storage capacity.

The new Samsung MLC NAND flash memory-based SSDs have a write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 90MB/s. The drives feature a Serial ATA 2 (3Gb/s) interface.

“Samsung SSDs feature far greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. Power consumption for the Samsung SSD is exceptionally low in standby mode at approximately 0.2 watts and in active mode at 0.5 watts,” the press release says.

According to the company, the new 128GB SSD will last approximately 20 times longer than the generally accepted 4-5 year life span of a traditional laptop hard drive.

We have no information on availability and pricing at the time of this writing.

MLC NAND flash memory technology uses multiple levels per cell to allow more bits to be stored as opposed to SLC NAND flash technologies, which uses a single level per cell. MLC is claimed to be cheaper due to the denser storage method used.

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