Based on multi-level cell MLC -- 64 MLC NAND flash chips of 16 gigabits each in the 9.5-mm thick 128GB SSD, they will definitely be cheaper and better than SLC-based SSDs. Also faster and with a 20 times larger life expectation. But then again, who doesn't like cheap and good things? I know I like them. And let's not forget they will be easy on our light bill with a consumption of 0.2 watts when idle and 0.5 watts when working.
Good news just won't stop coming. It seems that by the end of the year Samsung will give us the 256GB SSDs (are these going to be really expensive). All these good news are about to give me diabetes so I better end this now.
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gigabits? We ain't talkin' about network speed here, sonny!
The term is gigabytes, and that's not to be confused with Gibibytes (Which operating systems love to refer to as Gigabytes). The difference? Let me break it down:
Gigabyte: 1,000,000,000 bytes (What drive manufaturers mark on the box)
Gibibyte: 1,073,741,824 bytes (1024^3, and the reason why a 200GB disk shows up as only ≈186.25GB on your computer)
By the way, the correct abbreviation for Gigibytes is GiB.
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