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