With the introduction of these smaller, low-capacity SSDs, Samsung now offers an attractive replacement for existing hard drives used in low-cost PCs, like netbooks, according to the press release of Samsung.

Available in densities of 8GB, 16GB & 32GB, the new multi-level-cell SSDs will be mass produced beginning next month.

“We’ve refined our manufacturing techniques and redesigned our low-density SSDs to get what the low-priced PC market is looking for in the way of improved cost, performance and availability,” said Jim Elliott, Vice President, Memory Marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

The low-density Samsung SSDs use the same high-performance SATA II controller technology as that being used on Samsung’s just-introduced MLC-based 128GB SSD.

Samsung’s new MLC-based SSD at 32GB capacity will read data (sequentially) at 90MB/s and write it (sequentially) at 70MB/s – performance levels much greater than low-density SSDs on the market today. The 16GB reads at 90MB/s and writes at 45MB/s, while the 8GB reads at 90MB/s and writes at 25MB/s.

Samsung incorporates 4 individual 16 gigabit (Gb) MLC NAND chips in its 8GB SSD, as well as 4 dual-die packages and 4 quad-die packages of 16Gb NAND for its 16GB & 32GB SSDs respectively. Furthermore, by including a 32MB DRAM as the buffer & 4-channel system for the new low-density SSDs, these solutions are better suited for high-speed reading environments.