Samsung shipping ultra-fast SATA II SSD drives in time for MacBook Pro rollout?

Cleve Nettles
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February 18, 2008
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According to Macworld UK, Samsung is now shiping the fastest consumer SSD drives avalable to Dell.  The 64Gb drives have a SATA II interface that can support data reading at speeds of 100M Bps (bytes per second) and writing at 80M Bps. That makes it 60 percent faster than SATA I drives of the same type and two to five times faster than conventional hard-disk drives, according to Samsung.

Yes, of course we are thinking MacBook Pros - which should be out before the end of the month.  In case you are wondering how fast these things are, Ryan Block put one in his last generation MacBook Pro (below).   More on SSD MacBook Pros.

Comments (6)

AlterwürdigerHindenburg (not verified) | February 18, 2008 - 7:03am

Is it realistic that apple would be albe to implement these drives into the new mbp s?

Would be sweet though the numbers are fantastic...

Anonymous Cowherd (not verified) | February 18, 2008 - 9:25am

think they'll just wait till SSD prices come down further, and the Montevinas are out in June?

Anonymous Coward 2 (not verified) | February 18, 2008 - 10:39am

theyll probably have this as one of those rediculously expensive options that jumps the price to 4k

i wouldnt mind the option though...

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | February 18, 2008 - 2:14pm

Capacity is more important for me in a laptop than speed...

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | February 18, 2008 - 9:08pm

I agree... it's not like I'm sitting here waiting on my HD to load up things and complaining about how slow it is.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | February 19, 2008 - 9:07am

they are not going to put these in macbook pros any time soon. the price to storage ratio is not economical at all. and mbp people need a lot of storage, what they offer now doesn't cut it, this would be a giant step back in space. but what it does mean is that a year to year and years from now well have some wicked fast laptops that are quad core, running off high capacity ssd.