Samsung today announced at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei that it has developed a 1.8”-type 64GB flash-solid state drive (SSD).
The new flash-SSD is based on an 8GB single-level-cell (SLC) NAND, which provides significantly higher performance over conventional SSDs. Read – Write speed: 64MB/s – 45MB/s.
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, meaning that the new SSD’s ability to outperform conventional rotating-media hard drives is even greater than had been anticipated.
Samsung’s continued nano-technology migration is a key enabling factor in the continued market segmentation for storage media. Besides the use of the 64GB flash-SSD for notebook PCs, 8~16GB 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.
The flash-SSD, a drop-in replacement for a hard disk drive, is a secure and reliable means of storing personal or work-related data. It uses instantly-accessible, non-moving NAND flash memory instead of the noisier, power-hungry, jarring-sensitive rotating disc found in conventional hard drives, allowing it to upload and download data quickly and quietly with minimal power consumption.
Samsung plans to start mass production of the 1.8-inch 64GB flash-SSD in the second quarter of this year.
Press release here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Island Girl” for the heads up.]
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I want my solid state drive, 12″ screen, no cd/dvd, MacBook Pro!!
easy question, but I dunno the answer
will these work with any Apple Pro/Power notebooks?
Wouldn’t be much of a “Pro” machine without an optical drive, Wiseguy.
Throw one of those bitches in my iPhone before shipping it, Apple!!!!
The future is finally here…..
though I suspect the cost will make putting these in laptops cost prohibitive for the average Apple laptop consumer for the near future.
Will I have to sell a kidney to buy one of these?
I just wonder can these be used as an add on our Express card slot/34 in new mac book pros ??
Just a thought here, but if I were getting a micro computer, why not have a docking station that gives you the extra cd reader, hard drive, connection ports, etc.
You load up your system and go.. Wireless / bluetooth for most everything including printing etc.
Second thought:
Since flash hard drives should not fail for a long long time, will there be a market for used flash hard drives??? Performance should not degrade after use??
Just a thought.
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My Idea:
The MacBook Pro line may benefit from these types of drives – one Flash drive for the OS and apps, one HDD as a scratch disk, media drive, & content drive.
The key feature missing from the Pro line of MacBooks is the lack of a 2nd drive. With one, it becomes a true self-contained mobile editing machine.
@MPC Guy: Why would you put scratch functions on the slower HDD?
“I want my solid state drive, 12″ screen, no cd/dvd, MacBook Pro!!”
MacBook? Hell no. iPhone.
Why do we still have tape and now DVD video cameras? Flash drives are not new technology. We should have had flash drive recording video cameras for at least a year and a half – little/no problem with jarring, vibration, moisture, dust, etc.. Plug your flash-drive video camera into your computer FW port and drag the “footage” into your editor. What’s taking so long?!
I say if they have 64gb flash drive at that size does this mean that I can buy 32gb and put it in an iphone…the same way I can with an ipod…hmm
So does this mean hard drive “crashes”, in the traditional sense, will become a thing of the past?
What can go wrong, in the real world, with these things?
@Mr. Peabody:
The only thing that could really go wrong is that I would steal it for my computer. Aside from that you should be safe.
Beautiful. Now we just need the option for multiple drives in Apple laptops.
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While we’re at it, how about an option for a second battery?
With the improved MTBF of these units over normal HDD’s it would be interesting to really push the performance limits by building in 2 units in a RAID 0 configuration.
@jesus
Jesus!
Hey DanRoy!
They got those – you can buy them now. Ya gotta get out now and then.
Goodbuy HHD based iPods.