Samsung makes many things, from displays to memory chips, and it looks like, this once, it moved on the solid state drive front, releasing a certain collection in South Korea.

SSDs have been getting both faster and more capacious lately, due to the tendency of technology to advance in leaps and bounds.

It is Samsung that now got attention, thanks to its release of the 830 Series of solid state drives.

Then again, it would be more accurate to say that the company launched one new drive named 830 Series and available in two capacities.

Said capacities are 256 GB and 512 GB, respectively, and the speeds are about what one might expect from something working on the latest SATA iteration.

For those who don't remember, the newest SATA interface, known as SATA III, works at up to 6 Gbps, hence why it is usually dubbed SATA 6.0 Gbps.

In this case, it allows the solid state drive to function at up to 400 MB/s when reading and a maximum of 520 MB/s when writing.

This makes it faster at reading but slower at writing than the Plextor M2P, which was revealed just a couple of days or so ago (and somewhat resembles the 830, design-wise).

All in all, the 830 Series SSD, or SSDs, is/are about 2.5 times faster than their predecessors.

Samsung will sell the drives alongside an upgrade kit, composed of the necessary cables and the Norton Ghost 15.0 software.

As for the design, the company selected a brushed metal case, dark grey in color, with an orange 'stamp' on the corner indicating the capacity within.

It now falls to users to decide whether they are interested in this, or one of the other solid state drives out and about, like this Kingmax series, which actually reaches 1 TB in capacity.

Source: Softpedia

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