
Samsung Electronics began sampling 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64 Gigabyte (GB) solid state drives (SSD) featuring a SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface. The drive delivers a sequential write speed of 100 Megabyte per second (MBps) and sequential read speed of 120 MBps. The SATA II SSD has a 3.0 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) interface speed which is twice as fast as its SATA I predecessor. Moreover, the SATA II SSD requires only half as much power...