Samsung MMCQE28GFMUP 128GB 1.8" SATA-II MLC Solid State Hard Drive

[Amy]

Samsung MMCQE28GFMUP 128GB 1.8" SATA-II MLC Solid State Hard Drive

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Samsung's Solid State Drive (SSD) is an advanced NAND flash-based solution for traditional storage, leveraging the company's longtime leadership in memory technology.

This next-generation solution offers several advantages over rotating magnetic media such as significantly lower power consumption, remarkable ruggedness, high reliability, less weight and outstanding performance.

The SSD system is currently selling as an alternative high-end storage device for notebooks by many major PC manufacturers. The SSD's weight is less than that of a conventional hard drive, thus further increasing easy system portability.

The device also uses significantly less power. This gives users more battery life. Samsung's Solid State Drive performance is greater than traditional storage. In addition, random search times are the faster on the SSD, which is not subject to fragmentation and maintains its performance over time.

As a non-volatile storage device, the SSD has no moving parts such as the motor, disks and heads of a hard drive. Thus it eliminates spin-up time, seek time and rotational latency while delivering sustained high-speed data transfers. The SSD's lack of moving parts makes it noise-free and its ultra-low power consumption virtually eliminates heat emissions.

The SSD is also highly rugged, standing up to shock and vibration. These performance features make it well suited to a broad range of users. These include "road warrior" business professionals, as well as those in demanding military and industrial areas. Samsung designed the SSD's footprint to be interchangeable with a hard disk drive.

Furthermore, because the SSD is form-factor agnostic, the flash components can be arranged to meet virtually any size or shape configurations. Features - Read Speed of 90MB/s - Write Speed of 70MB/s - Onboard Cache - Samsung Controller - Ideal for laptops as these are bare drives (No casing)



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[Xabi]

Considering I only just bought 2x 32gb ones of these for ~£80 each - These things are starting to become awesome value!

Im still UBER happy with my 2x 32GB Samsung SLC's on Raid-0, but now size is getting respectable, moving them out of the enthusiast market further into mainsteam! I'd not hesitate to buyone one or 2 of these if I hadnt already waded in!

Great deal Amy!

[RHodgett]

Is there any chance of getting in a similar drive but in PATA?

Great deal however for someone who wants SATA :)

[djayyy]

So tempted to buy 2 of these for my desktop PC but the fact they have no case puts me off somewhat. Shame as the ones with a case are £100 odd more expensive.

[LuckyNV]

Is there any chance of getting in a similar drive but in PATA?

Great deal however for someone who wants SATA :)

Not sure there is any SSD coming in PATA interface or indeed ever will.

[shaffaaf27]

umm what controller does this use?

is it the micron?

[LuckyNV]

Samsung own brand of drives use Samsung controllers

[thesis]

Any benches for these SSD's? Are they 90/70 or faster?

[kpkpkp]

Samsung did make some PATA drives but the last one we ordered for a customer took about 7 weeks to arrive and they sent the wrong drive twice before getting it right. I think the issue is that whilst Samsung do produce the drives in PATA interface they tend to do it for specific projects and special orders where as the SATA stuff is mainstream (and offers much better performance)

HTH

Kp

[Nox]

I would suggest probably look at getting a PCI sata card if you don't have sata slots and want an ssd.

Nox

[teknokid]

I would suggest probably look at getting a PCI sata card if you don't have sata slots and want an ssd.

Nox

well, if they can justify the cost of an SSD, then they should really be able to get a sata mobo :)

[riboflavin]

I would suggest probably look at getting a PCI sata card if you don't have sata slots and want an ssd.

Nox

I would not suggest a PCI SATA controller, as the lower spec PCI speeds limit SSD throughput. This is starting to become a major issue for people using multi-SSD on-chip RAID setups that are routed through the PCI bus and not the PCIe bus.

PCIe 4x/8x/16x SATA controller = much safer bet.

I thinks the PATA drives are primarily for netbooks and notebooks that have this type of interface...unfortunately, my Dell D430 has a ZIFF socket hard drive connector so, this otherwise sweet deal, is out for me. :(

[explicit4u]

Is it possible to get a case for it?

[thesis]

Yep. Look at the other thread for the same drive. Costs around $40.

[Nox]

I would not suggest a PCI SATA controller, as the lower spec PCI speeds limit SSD throughput. This is starting to become a major issue for people using multi-SSD on-chip RAID setups that are routed through the PCI bus and not the PCIe bus.

PCIe 4x/8x/16x SATA controller = much safer bet.


Not seen any mobo's with pcie that didn't have a sata port :)

Nox

[FXNav]

On the subject of laptops, does anyone know how much an SSD would increase battery life by? 25-30% would be nice... Also, how easy are they to install into a laptop - is there any difference to installing an SATA drive?

[thesis]

They do not increase battery life much as they consume almost the same power (probably more when idle). They install the same way as a SATA drive.

[karateo]

On the subject of laptops, does anyone know how much an SSD would increase battery life by? 25-30% would be nice... Also, how easy are they to install into a laptop - is there any difference to installing an SATA drive?

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=16

Intel's X25-M boosted battery life by a bit over 6% or 27 minutes, not an insignificant increase in battery life.
in addition
samsung ssds consume less than intel ones!