“According to Asian electronics component company person, Apple seems to adopt 400-Mbps interface ‘Toggle DDR2.0’ by 19nm process NAND flash memory for new MacBook Air,” Macotakara reports.
“Current SSD device Blade X-gale supporting SATA 2.6 will be abolished and new 19nm flash memory will be packaged into smaller chip and will be soldered on base circuit directly,” Macotakara reports.
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MacDailyNews Note: Last December, Macworld ran some tests on a 2008 2.13GHz MacBook Air with a 128GB SSD, a built-to-order 2010 27-inch 2.93GHz quad-core Core i7 iMac with a 128GB SSD, and a 2010 13-inch 1.86GHz MacBook Air with 256GB flash storage, and found the following results:
AJA System Tests: Read
iMac: 204MBps
2010 MacBook Air: 201MBps
2008 MacBook Air: 104MBpsAJA System Tests: Write
iMac: 177MBps
2010 MacBook Air: 187MBps
2008 MacBook Air: 67MBpsDiskTester Fill Volume: Read
iMac: 213MBps
2010 MacBook Air: 210MBps
2008 MacBook Air: 104MBpsDiskTester Fill Volume: Write
iMac: 172MBps
2010 MacBook Air: 172MBps
2008 MacBook Air: 60MBps