p2pnet - rss feed: Samsung solid state hard drive
p2pnet.net News:- Samsung Electronics says it’s developed the first Solid State Disk (SSD) with a capacity of up to 16 gb based on NAND Flash memory technology.
It’s a low power, lightweight storage media for notebook PCs, sub-notebook PCs and tablet PCs, it says, going on:
“The SSD has a power consumption rate less than five percent of today’s hard disk drives (HDDs), enabling next generation mobile PCs to extend their battery life by more than 10 percent. The NAND-based SSD weighs less than half that of a comparably sized HDD.”
Free of moving parts, the Samsung SSD memory is quite and cool and “endures exceptionally well in environments with extreme temperatures and humidity, making it suited for industrial and military applications,” states he company..
It says the unit’s performance rate exceeds that of a comparably sized HDD by more than 150%.
The storage disk reads data at 57 MegaBytes per second (MBps) and writes it at 32MBps.
The 1.8-inch type SSD will be available in August this year for sub-notebook and tablet PCs.
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Samsung Electronics - Samsung Electronics Develops Solid State Disk Using NAND Flash Technology, May 23, 2005
May 24th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
It’s a first, yes, but only in size. Flash-based HDD units have been available for several years now. Cost is very prohibitive on them, however.
If a reasonable 10GB drive could be made, this would be ideal for slapping on a PCI card as the boot drive for a computer.