Samsung unveils 1.8-inch, 64GB solid state hard drive

Adam Turner
Saturday, 31 March 2007 01:03

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Samsung has announced a 64GB, 1.8-inch flash-solid state drive (SSD) at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei.

Featuring NAND flash memory with no moving parts, flash-SSDs are shock-resistant while faster and quieter than traditional hard drives. They also consume less power, making them well suited to portable devices.

The new flash-SSD is based on an eight gigabit, single-level-cell (SLC) NAND - which provides significantly higher performance over conventional SSDs. The read and write performance of the new SLC flash-SSD have been increased by 20 percent and 60 percent respectively over the 32GB flash-SSD Samsung introduced last year.

Besides the use of the 64 GB flash-SSD for notebook PCs, 8 to 16GB flash-SSDs will become viable solutions for use in personal navigation systems and digital camcorders, as will hundred GB-level flash-SSDs for use in the server market.

Samsung plans to start mass production of the 1.8-inch-type 64GB flash-SSD in the second quarter of this year. The SSD market is expected to reach US$200 million in 2007 and increases to US$6.8 billion by 2010.