People dropping by the Galaxy website or roaming online shops may stumble upon a product that definitely doesn't fit in with the company's typical business practices.
Word just got out that Galaxy has completed a new set of solid state drives.
The Razor, covered
here, was the first and marked the outfit's business expansion from NVIDIA graphics cards to storage units.
The Laser GT is, thus, the second line of such storage devices that the hardware developer launched so far.
The first one was the Razor line, which focused on compactness (7mm / 0.27-inch thickness) but didn't try to be too fast (stuck to SATA II 3.0 Gbps instead of SATA III 6.0 Gbps).
The new series is more performance-packed, with support for the latter SATA type.
To reach the speeds of 550 MB/s when reading and 500 MB/s when writing, the SandForce SF-2281 SSD controller was chosen.
Meanwhile, the 4K random read and write performance is of 30,000 IOPS and 41,000 IOPS, respectively.
The above numbers apply to the 120 GB model, which is also the only one to be given a price at this time.
The
report that supplied the info about it actually didn't say how many units there were, or would be, in this series.
It is likely that at least a 240 GB drive will eventually be developed (provided it doesn't already exist) and sent to stores.
Either way, only the 120 GB Laser GT SSD was priced, at $221, which is the same as 171.09 Euro, give or take.
Galaxy employed MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash chips with 5,000 rewrite cycle life.
Support for TRIM, the software feature that constantly clears up deleted sectors to preserve performance over time, wasn't mentioned, but its presence is likely.
After all, all self-respecting consumer SSDs, especially SandForce-based ones, have TRIM.
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