Samsung intros extra-fast 64GB flash drive
updated 09:30 am EST, Mon November 5, 2007
Samsung SATA II 64GB SSD
Samsung today claimed to be the first company to produce a solid-state drive using a Serial ATA II bus, giving it the added headroom to take advantage of higher flash memory speeds. The interface gives the 1.8-inch, 64GB disk as much as three gigabits per second of bandwidth and uses improved NAND flash memory to write data as quickly as 100MB per second -- more than twice as fast as the 45 megabytes of earlier solid-state drives and even faster than a conventional 1.8-inch hard disk, Samsung says. Read speeds are faster still at 120MB per second.
This speed lets the disk serve not only as a high-speed alternative to the drives found in many ultraportable notebooks but also makes it an effective alternative to power-consuming, high-RPM hard drives: the new SSD consumes half the power of a notebook drive at an average 1.9W and even less compared to the 15,000RPM disks often found in servers, according to Samsung. The lack of moving parts also extends the average lifespan of the drive from less than 300,000 hours to 2 million.
The Korean firm is currently sampling the new 64GB drive and has not said when it expects mass production, though this typically follows a few months later. Customers for the drive have not been listed but should include manufacturers of both notebooks and high-performance desktops.










Yes please
11/05, 10:05am reply
One for my iMac and my MacBook Pro please!!
Will this fit into an iPhone? :)
MiMiC
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I second that
11/05, 11:32am reply
If they make them with the same size as current notebook drives and the capacity reaches more than 100 Gb, then I'd definitely want to get one for my MacBook Pro.
rtamesis
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size
11/05, 12:09pm reply
don't care about the Pro's, please use the small drives for a super-portable laptop, please, please, please
chucker
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one more thing
11/05, 12:11pm reply
and if and when "back to my mac" really starts to work, who really needs a huge drive in a laptop, 64 GB stats to sound plenty...
chucker
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Average lifespan?
11/12, 12:55pm reply
So it's saying the average lifespan of a typical drive is near 300,000 hours? That's about 34 years. I don't know ANY hard drives that would continue functioning for that long.
2 million hours is about 225 years. Come on, these numbers are a bit off.
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