Samsung To Launch Flash-Based Hard Drive

Spinner (Spinner) Samsung today presented a flash memory based replacement for conventional hard disk drives. The solid-state disk (SSD) uses memory chips instead of a mechanical recording system, this ensures lower power consumption and high data rates.

May 23, 2005 4:13 PM ET in News,

Samsung today presented a flash memory based replacement for conventional hard disk drives. The solid-state disk (SSD) uses memory chips instead of a mechanical recording system, this ensures lower power consumption and high data rates.

The company states the only reason why flash hard drives haven’t been commercialized yet is the higher cost compared to conventional hard disk storage. The price of flash memory is still higher but over the years the difference will become smaller and smaller and with years SSDs will be able to compete with hard-disk storage on price, according to Samsung. Mass production of these flash-based disks will start in August.

Source: DVHardware

3 Comments:

  1. pseudonym
    23 May '05, 11:33 pm

    Interesting. I'd get one if the price was right.

  2. RWB
    23 May '05, 11:49 pm

    Not even fast enough for my tastes, it's slower than most drives I have ever owned. 16GB for est.$900? Screw that.

  3. Gravite2090
    24 May '05, 10:33 am

    that one super fancy shamancy pc company has been selling these for a few years. id get one if i ran a server simply because it lacks moving parts.

    from what i understand, they are also pretty fast. and damn silent i bet

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