Tuesday, March 21st 2006
Samsung releases 32GB solid state hard drive
Samsung has taken the wraps off the first consumer 32GB solid state hard drive. It has the usual 1.8" form factor, and is meant to replace traditional drives in notebooks. The drive can read data at 57 MB/s and write it at 32 MB/s, which would make it twice as fast as traditional hard drives. It is not only light weight (15g), but is noiseless, and it uses around 5% of the power compared to a normal drive. There seem to be no draw backs, but I am sure the drive won't be cheap, still perfect for UMPCs from intel if you ask me.
Source:
TG Daily
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Plus, if they are a lot more expensive than old drives, think about it, if you don't have to buy $200-400 RAM every few months to keep up with the ever-growing amount of space applications are taking up, then you can put that towards your hard drive.