Samsung's Solid State Drives (SSD)

[FM]

http://www.samsung.com/eu/Products/Semiconductor/products/ssd.asp

"Samsung designed the SSD to look like a hard drive from the outside. Inside, it includes NAND flash memory, controller, connectors and other elements on a printed circuit board."

Excellent Read/Write and Boot-up Performance
The performance of Samsung's SSD exceeds that of a similarly sized hard drive by more than 150%. For example, it can read data at a rate of 60MB per second and achieves write speeds of 40MB per second, which is more than twice as fast as comparable hard disk drives. Its speed lets PC users cut boot-up time in half when compared to a conventional 1.8-inch hard drive. As a non-volatile storage device, the SSD has no moving parts such as the motor, disks and heads of a hard drive.

Was only a matter of time

[rbuffetta]

Re: Samsung's Solid State Drives (SSD)

Saw them on anandtech

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3167&p=1

"The 32GB drive we are testing lists for around $1199"

Damn

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Samsung's Solid State Drives (SSD)

now why would someone wanna spend that much for a 32gig hard drive these days.

[rbuffetta]

Re: Samsung's Solid State Drives (SSD)



"now why would someone wanna spend that much for a 32gig hard drive these days."

I agree. They are fast as hell but I will wait for them prices to go down

[beanzncheez]

Re: Samsung's Solid State Drives (SSD)

They've dropped to $1198