Now we're getting somewhere.

Samsung made good on its promise to release a 256 GB solid state drive this week. Beyond the capacity bump, Samsung promises some significant performance gains:

The new 256GB SSD more than doubles the performance rates of Samsung 64GB and 128GB SSDs to become the SSD with the highest overall performance in the personal computer industry, combining sequential read rates of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) with sequential write rates of 200MB/s. This sharply narrows the performance gap between read and write operations to only 10 percent, compared to a read-write speed difference of between 20 and 70 percent for other SSDs. In addition, erase cycles are a rapid 100GBs per minute, allowing the entire drive to be re-written much faster, when needed.

Plus, the 2.5-inch drive consumes just consumes 1.1 watts.

As Engadget points out, there's no word on pricing. You can rest assured, however, that it won't be cheap.