Samsung has brought out a couple of new Solid State Drives to market featuring the lightning fast SATA II interface. The new drives will be available in both 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch sizes. The 1.8-inch size should see some tiny little notebooks zipping along at great speed. The new drives will write at 100 MBps and read at approximately 120MBps. They use about half the energy of a conventional laptop hard disk, so that should see some healthier battery times. Combine the low power requirements of the SSDs with those of the latest CPUs and the next generation of laptop screens that Samsung is poised to bring out next year and you have a very pretty picture.
64GB might not seem like a lot, but it is more than enough for a workstation and even enough for a game or two. If you are using it for program files rather than massive media collections, 64GB can actually go quite a long way. Still, the price per Gigabyte is at present way too high. No idea on what Samsung’s latest offerings will cost, but the smart money is on the price being up there. If you don’t need one now, you would probably be best advised to wait. Things like this always stay in the mega-expensive price range for a while and then start to come down to earth (I remember when the first generation of CD-R drives came out and prices were over $1000).
Source: Akihabara News
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Ssd: Samsung Unveils New 64GB SATA II SSDs
Nov 7, 2007 at 4:56 pm
[...] Samsung is intent on leading the way in SSD adoption with their new 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB solid state drives featuring a super-fast SATA II interface. With a combination of speed, 100 MBps write speed and a 120MBps read speed and lower power consumption, it won’t be long before we see these babies popping up in a lot more devices. Unfortunately, prices are still a barrier, and that is not expected to change when Samsung finally announces how much these drives will cost. [Akihabara News via SciFi Tech via Uberreview] [...]
Nov 2, 2008 at 1:34 am
If you can remember when CD-Rs were $1000, then you can also remember that at the same time, a typical hard disk was 5 gigabytes. Have we become so arrogant and blasé that we now look down our noses at something so puny as 64 gigs?
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