Apple MacBook Air SSD Gets Faster

Last year, the Thailand floods affected Apple’s business due to the global shortage of hard disks. Solid state hard drives replaced ordinary hard drives, but at a slow rate. Using solid state drives would make the host computers so much faster that the system will even boot up in a jiffy.

It was Apple which actually made SSDs famous, by including them in the Mac systems, technically. More people came to know about it and the demand for SSD increased, hence increasing Apple Mac devices with SSDs’ demand proportionately. However SSD’s doesn’t usually come in great sizes. The memory capacity will be comparatively small, but the computer will be very much fast, in accessing and running applications to booting up.

Reportedly, Solid state drives are nothing like it has ever been thanks to the efforts from companies like Samsung and Toshiba.  At the CES 2012, Samsung’s and Toshiba’s booths showcased their respective versions of the SSD storage solutions. It is Samsung and Toshiba that provide SSDs for Apple’s MacBook Airs. The new 470 OEM SSD from Samsung seems to have caught Apple’s attention and reportedly, news came out pretty soon that Apple is planning to buy Samsung’s new SSDs on a large scale.

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Toshiba’s new SSDs are comparatively slower than Samsung’s new OEM SSDs. That isn’t the surprise here. According to Samsung’s reports, 470 OEM SSDs got completely sold out late last year itself, which made Samsung take a shot in developing a new 830 Series SSD. The Write speed of 830 2.5 inch model SSD was over 400 MB per second while the read speed was over 500 MB per second.

If you search the speed of the current SSD models in Apple MacBook Airs and compare it with the Samsung OEM 830 models, you will be very surprised and absolutely impressed, because the read and write rates of 830 series SSDs are almost twice more than those of the current SSD model in MacBook Airs. In addition to this, even Toshiba’s new SSD will bite the dust if it goes head-to-head against Samsung’s 830 SSDs.

Samsung also confirmed that its biggest customer is still Apple, which buys 830 Series SSDs. So technically, it is safe to assume that enhanced MacBook Airs will soon be out with 830 SSDs in them, making them twice as fast. However, we also have to consider a possibility that Apple won’t always be relying on Samsung SSD drives for too long. It might go for the easily available Toshiba SSDs, which is developing at a slow rate or continue with Samsung for a risky yet effective team up.