ONFi 2.0 To Bring 133 MB/s NAND Flash Interface

The Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFi) Working Group is nothing if not troubled with the current speed provided by NAND flash devices and because of this it has announced the ONFi 2.0 specification which is currently at the 0.9 draft.

ONFi 2.0 is aimed at defining a high-speed NAND interface that delivers up to 133 MB/s in interface performance, significantly up from the current maximum of just 50 MB/s. Helping speed up flash USB sticks, solid state drives and more the ONFi will continue to aim high with every version with the third already said to come with a speed of 400 MB/s.

The 0.9 draft of ONFi 2.0 will be available for the general public in Q1 2008.

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Samsung 64GB Serial ATA II SSD Launched

Samsung has unveiled new Serial ATA II solid state disks with a capacity of 64GB.

The drives are available in 1.8" and 2.5" formats and feature 120MB/s sequential read speeds and 100MB/s sequential write speeds.

“The 64GB SATA II SSD is based on Samsung’s cutting-edge NAND technology with dramatically improved performance specs that are taking system performance to a whole new level of efficiency,” said Jim Elliott, director, NAND flash marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

The drive weighs only 40g (15g for the 1.8" version) and consumes only 0.7W.

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