Samsung PB22-J 256GB SSD is Sizzling Hot

[HaZ]

The 256 GB Samsung PB22-J Solid State Drive (SSD) is not only attractive on the outside, but also attractive on the inside.

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[Tindytim]

Would have been nice to know, that according to that link you posted, the write speed is much faster than that of Intel's X-25M.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/03/17/review_storage_ssd_samsung_mmd0e56g5/page3.html

 

[Slobogob]

I wouldn't call JMicrons chip popular. Infamous is a more appropriate term.

 

[daft]

1GB of cache, that's quite a bit.

 

[Guest]

"And to top that all off, the onboard SSD controller is also built by Samsung – a bold move, considered by some. For comparison, Intel uses a Promise made SSD controller and OCZ makes use of the popular JMicron controller chip."


Your information is out of date, read the anadtech SSD anthology article.

 

[spazoid]

In the article, the cache is described as one Gb, not one GB.

 

[gwolfman]

OCZ makes use of the popular JMicron controller chip

They don't anymore, do they? I know their Summit series has the sammy chip as well and the vertex has the Indilinx chip.

 

[daft]

[citation][nom]spazoid[/nom]In the article, the cache is described as one Gb, not one GB.[/citation]
"This 256 GB SDD consists of sixteen K9MDGZ8U5M-SCK0 Multi-Layer Cell (MLC) flash chips along with a 1 GB K4X1G323PD-8GC6 DDR cache chip."
notice the capitalized GB

 

[spazoid]

Yes, that is my point. The original article states "1 Gb" and the THG recap interprets this as "1 GB". Which statement is the correct one, I do not know, but if it is indeed a 1 Gbyte (8 Gb) cache, then I must say it is very impressive.

 

[neogodless]

I've only seen the little "b" intentionally used to indicated bit in bandwidth, not storage size. But then I haven't seen everything everywhere forever.

1 GB (gigabyte) is quite likely.

 

[Guest]

Purchased this drive about 3 weeks ago and have been running it in my Macbook pro. I've put a brief review of it on my site including launch/shutdown timings for both the apps and the laptop. http://www.photopye.co.uk/reviews/Reviews.html

 

[Guest]

The cache memory chip is described as 1 gigabit on the samsung website which means that it is indeed 128megabyte... The corsair is therefore identical to the Samsung.