Samsung Churns Out 1.8-Inch Flash Hard Drives

TechNewsWorld ^ | 06/25/07 1:38 PM PT | Chris Maxcer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Samsung is pushing toward mainstream use of flash-based hard disks in laptops with its decision to mass-produce 64-gigabyte 1.8-inch solid state drives.

Flash drives are immune to damage that might be caused by magnetic fields or vibration, "the two things that most often take out notebook computers," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group.

Samsung Electronics is now mass-producing the industry's first 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) at a whopping 64 gigabytes, making the high-density flash-memory-based drives suitable for widespread ultra-portable laptop use.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It's a go....

Earlier thread:

Samsung Electronics ~ announced ..a 1.8”-type 64 Gigabyte (GB) flash-solid state drive (SSD).

[martin_fierro]

What's it supposed to look like?

Got a good deal on a 4 GB SD card this week.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Found a picture:

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[Keith in Iowa]

tech ping. I want one of these...

[Redcitizen]

Flash drives are immune to damage that might be caused by magnetic fields...

Does anyone know how EMP affects these Flash Drives?

[rawhide]

Flash can dump its memory much faster [than traditional drives]. One of the limitations right now is that they are using the old hard drive interface ... and it's bottlenecking at the drive interface," Enderle noted. Once the bottleneck is fixed, newer flash drives "are expected to be blindingly fast. Even with these flash drives, we're talking about PC boot times in the ten-second range."

Interesting.

[ShadowAce]

[Egon]

"Even with these flash drives, we're talking about PC boot times in the ten-second range."

Interesting.

Don't worry. I'm sure MS will figure out a way to slow it down to the normal 70 seconds or so.