Samsung 6GBps SSD drives

The Samsung 830 series of SSDs (solid-state disks that use flash memory rather than hard drives' spinning magnetic disks) transfer data at speeds of 6GB per second and are designed to perform much better than hard drives. They'll go on sale worldwide at the end of October, Samsung said, but like all SSDs, they're not cheap compared to conventional hard drives. The 64GB model costs about 100 euros, the 128GB model about 200 euros, the 256GB model about 400 euros, and the top-end 512GB model about 800 euros, Samsung said.