The successor to the Samsung-branded SSD inside your 2011 MacBook Air has just been announced. The Samsung PM830 supports the SATA revision 3.0 interface and is capable of transmissions of up to 6 Gbps. Not to mention these drives deliver double the performance of company’s current SATA 3 Gbps drives, recording sequential read speeds of 500 MB/s and writes speeds of 350 MB/s. How do you like them apples?
Select models of 2011 MacBook Air feature Samsung’s PM810. The new PM830 decimates this SSD in all aspects, including capacity which has been bumped from 256GB to 512GB. Samsung believes the larger capacity “will help increase market interest in 256GB and higher densities significantly.”
The 512MB PM830 uses Samsung’s most advanced 20 nanometer (nm) class 32 Gigabit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND memory chip incorporating the toggle DDR interface. This proprietary NAND controller delivers exception performance, allowing the drives to take full advantage of the toggle DDR architecture and the SATA 6Gbps interface.
At the end of the day you’re looking at double the performance and double the capacity. If Apple and Samsung can find a way to settle the increasingly hostile legal disputes, the PM830 should find its way into the next generation MacBook Air — likely due out in 2012.
Coming Soon | Samsung | TBD
