I’ve never heard of Apotop before but they’re just launched a new line of SSDs that use the SM2246 controller and are SATA III compatible. At this point almost any SSD is faster than a mechanical hard drive, I love the SSD I have in my computer, I just wish I could afford them for all the computers in my house. Anyway there’s some details below fro you about the new SSD line..

Apotop, maker of creative electronics and peripherals, has released the S3C SATA III SSD with SM2246 controller and Synchronous NAND Flash coming in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB sizes.

Upgrade and speed up your computer with the Apotop S3C SSD which uses cutting-edge solid state architecture with a SM2246 controller with Synchronous NAND flash, capable of reaching sequential read speeds of up to 500MB/s. The S3C also allows for exceptionally quick file transfers during editing and backup because of the supported 300MB/s sequential write speed.

The Apotop S3C SSD is Ultra Slim and only 7mm in height. The S3C comes with a 3 year limited warranty and has RoHS, CE, FCC, VCCI and BSMI certifications.

The S3C uses NAND Flash Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Synchronous Flash Memory and the SATA III 6Gb/s Interface is backwards compatible with SATA II 3Gb/s. It features the Trim command and has support for a max of 4k write IOPS along with RAID support

For more information about Apotop, please visit: http://www.apotop.net/