{"id":26316,"date":"2016-06-01T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/samsungs-new-512gb-ssd-is-smaller-than-a-postage-stamp"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:41:29","slug":"samsungs-new-512gb-ssd-is-smaller-than-a-postage-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/samsungs-new-512gb-ssd-is-smaller-than-a-postage-stamp","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s new 512GB SSD is smaller than a postage stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/samsungs-new-512gb-ssd-is-smaller-than-a-postage-stamp.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Storage in your laptop or smartphone is a compromise between volume, access speed and physical size. But, the industry\u2019s competition to shrink them while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/04\/samsung-portable-ssd-t3\/\">boosting<\/a> their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/08\/seagate-fastest-ever-ssd\/\">specifications<\/a> is fierce. A few months after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/03\/03\/samsung-16tb-ssd-shipping\/\">shipping<\/a> a 16TB solid-state drive, Samsung has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/samsung-mass-producing-industrys-first-512-gigabyte-nvme-ssd-in-a-single-bga-package-for-more-flexibility-in-computing-device-design\">announced<\/a> a fast, efficient 512GB SSD that\u2019s half the size of a postage stamp.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/samsung-mass-producing-industrys-first-512-gigabyte-nvme-ssd-in-a-single-bga-package-for-more-flexibility-in-computing-device-design\">press release<\/a> claims that the drive is the first mass-produced 512GB SSD with non-volatile memory express (NVMe), a host-controller interface with a streamlined register for speed, in a single package. Unlike other hard drives in multi-chip packages (MCP), Samsung\u2019s new drive is organized in a ball grid array into a collected unit, making it simpler to fit in and connect to other parts in the device. This makes the drive ideal for the ultra-slim notebook PC market, where space and weight are at a premium.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Samsung VP said in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/global\/samsung-mass-producing-industrys-first-512-gigabyte-nvme-ssd-in-a-single-bga-package-for-more-flexibility-in-computing-device-design\">a press release<\/a> that the tiny drive triples the performance of a typical SATA SSD. Its read\/write speeds of up to 1,500MB\/s and 900MB\/s, respectively, mean you could transfer a 5GB HD video in 3 seconds. Samsung will start selling the drive in June in 512GB, 256GB and 128GB models.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/31\/samsungs-new-512gb-ssd-is-smaller-than-a-postage-stamp\/\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/05\/31\/samsungs-new-512gb-ssd-is...age-stamp\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storage in your laptop or smartphone is a compromise between volume, access speed and physical size. But, the industry\u2019s competition to shrink them while boosting their specifications is fierce. A few months after shipping a 16TB solid-state drive, Samsung has announced a fast, efficient 512GB SSD that\u2019s half the size of a postage stamp. Samsung\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50332,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26316\/revisions\/50332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}