Micron announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch 256 GB Solid State Drive this fall. The devices will be targeted for enterprise server and notebook PC applications. Although, Micron didn’t announce the price, sources suggested that the price for 256 GB SDD would be around $500.
Samsung Electronics plans to unveil a flash memory-based solid-state disk within this year (Sept. 08) that boasts a 256G byte capacity using a SATA II interface, it said Monday. The 256GB edition reads sequential data at 200MB per second, twice the rate of the original model, while also seeing an even greater increase in write speeds: where the earlier drive writes at 70MB per second, the new SSD writes at 160MB per second. This comes in a chassis that is also described as one of Samsung’s thinnest at 9.5mm (0.37in).