The SM951 is extremely small for space constrained applications. It comes in M.2 form factor, which is 80mm x 22mm or about one-seventh the size of a standard 2.5" SSD. It also only weighs six grams but can run up to 512GB of capacity.
With a PCIe 3.0 interface on newer laptops and desktops, the SM951 has sequential speeds up to 2,15GB/s read and 1,55GB/s write. That would make it about four times as fast as a current SATA SSD and about 50% faster than its predecessor, the XP941. When it comes to PCIe 2.0 interface, the SM951 also boasts impressive performance with sequential speeds up to 1,6GB/s read and 1,35GB/s write or about three times as fast as the latest SATA SSDs.
What's incredible is that it also uses 50% less power and only consumes about 2mW in standby mode, which is about 97% decrease from the 50mW consumed using a L1 state.
The SM951 is now in production and will be appearing in notebook and desktop systems later this year.
Thats is awesome. Smaller amd faster.
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DeleteSSD will capture whole bunch of market very soon. Wonderful Technology .
ReplyDeleteok that's all very nice but what about price?? That is the major issue with SSD not the performance!
ReplyDeleteThat's nice and all but right now the M.2 format isn't supported very well. I have a M.2 and it has to be physically toggled whenever I want to boot my PC. I contact support in regards to the problem and they basically said they haven't patched a power issue with it yet.
ReplyDeleteThat is super duper tiny.... its great that it is fast and tiny.. but SSD's are EXPENSIVE. i wonder what is the price for these
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for prices on SSDs to drop a little more, but they are getting better and better!
ReplyDeletei'm poor but i've bought samsung 850 pro ssd and i don't regret it, the difference is smashing. it's great to see the the ssd technology is still improving rapidly.
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