Samsung is upping the ante in the solid state drive market, announcing it plans to ship a 64 GB, 1.8-inch model in the second quarter of 2007.
The market for flash-based solid state disk drives which act as drop-in replacements for traditional hard drives used in mobile and portable devices is heating up: Samsung announced today that it plans to ship a 64 GB solid state drive in the second quarter of this year. The announcement comes on the heels of SanDisk announcing a 32 GB flash drive only a couple weeks ago, and Fujitsu announcing solid state drives as an option in selected LifeBook portable computers.
Not only does Samsung’s new offering increase the capacity available in solid state drives, it increases the performance as well. Samsung claims the respective read and write performance on the drive have been increased by 20 and 60 percent: the 64 GB unit can read 64 MB/S, write 45 MB/s, and consumes just half a Watt when operating (one tenth of a Watt when idle). In comparison, an 80 GB 1.8-inch hard drive reads at 15 MB/s, writes at 7 MB/s, and eats 1.5 Watts either operating or when idle.
Samsung plans to start mass production of the 64 GB solid state drive in the second quarter of 2007, although the company didn’t release any estimates on the unit’s price to OEMs or consumers.
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RSSJimMorris9269@hotmail.com
Duh Paul... Here's a quote from the article. Too bad your mental acuity is so dulled by your love of snarkiness. Have a mediocre day.
"The market for flash-based solid state disk drives which act as drop-in replacements for traditional hard drives used in mobile and portable devices is heating up: "
So far better than any hard disk !!!
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx...
look @ that
I do not have pricing on the Samsung drive.
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Destroyit
Your guys' thoughts...
"Fast forward to the end of 2005, and flash memory has finally matured into a large capacity product that takes up little space and has much lower power requirements than a hard drive – using 30 times less power. It is lightweight, reliable, highly durable being able to withstand being dropped and other rough treatment and is getting ever cheaper, although today still very expensive for traditional hard disk sizes of 30Gb and larger. As with hard drives, flash memory is not indestructible, nor does it last forever, with 10 years being the expected data retention life span for flash and a lifespan of at least 5 years and more for hard drives, although by then you’re likely to be using much more advanced technologies (flash, hard drive based, optical or something else) with far greater capacities."
Technology would probably outdate it before it dies.
Whats the lifespan of these drives? I am sure everyone would want to know.
Most current hard drives are warranted for 3 years or less (Seagate's the 5-year exception), and, working at a local PC shop, it's in actuality much less than that. I would say that the MTBF for this would be comparable to that of a standard HDD, with the same high and low outliers in terms of lifetime.
It would also depend upon how many writes you'd like to make. If you decided to do a Secure Erase on it (no point in doing so, but bear with me), you could easily start using up your writes. However, even a standard hard drive comes under significant strain during such things, so again, you're probably looking at something similar. I believe I read somewhere a long time ago that the "current" (as of then) maximum writes for most flash devices is in the vicinity of 1 million. If that's the case, then even using that number, that's a lot of writes spread over a lot of space. Unless you're routinely using all of the SSD, you're not going to stress it in day to day operation. In fact, end users who do nothing but check their e-mail and write Word documents would probably find the SSD to last a LOT longer than a standard drive, and eat up vastly smaller amounts of power doing so.
http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12559.html
I hadn't thought about that, thanks for the info. I just need a 100GB now for my main drive, and then I can add a SATA for my backup.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Mempile_Promises_1_TB_Op...
I need both of these in my system.
Nifty stuff! I want one, Call me back when they are cost-competitive.
I wonder, though, will we forever refer to these as "Disk Drives". They don't have any disks in them -- they replace gadgets that do have disks.
But none of this is new: we still talk about "dialing" a phone call, and you send copies of an e-mail by using the "c.c." field, which stands for "carbon copy".
Ken