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Are you ready for solid state storage?

Samsung is apparently, and it's quite amazing how low key they've kept the project. No sooner that the announcement was made that another was made that actual product would be available by June, for the Korean market anyway. The new NAND flash equiped laptops will feature 32GB of pure flash based storage. And all that while drawing significantly less power and putting out much less heat than traditional hard drives, not to mention being able to operate in complete silence.

The SSD reads 300 percent faster (53MB/s) and writes 150 percent quicker (28MB/s) than normal hard drives. As a result, multiple application programs can operate simultaneously and large volumes of data can be edited and reproduced more efficiently. The Microsoft Windows XP operating system will boot up 25-50% faster on the SSD than on other drives—good news for those in a hurry. Moreover, the typical 1.8-inch hard disk drive weighs around 50 grams; whereas the SSD is 20 to 30 grams lighter, depending on the package type.

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Posted by | Tue, May 23, 2006 - 06:45 PM