Samsung Electronics is now mass-producing the industry’s first 1.8-inch solid state drives at a whopping 64 gigabytes, making the high-density flash-memory-based drives suitable for widespread ultra-portable laptop use. “Flash-based memory drives represent the future of the laptop market,” Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. “They pull less power and generate less heat, and you don’t have to shield them as heavily, so they result in a smaller overall form factor.”
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Samsung Churns Out 1.8-Inch Flash Hard Drives
Posted by: Chris Maxcer June 25, 2007 01:38 PMSamsung Electronics is now mass-producing the industry’s first 1.8-inch solid state drives at a whopping 64 gigabytes, making the high-density flash-memory-based drives suitable for widespread ultra-portable laptop use. “Flash-based memory drives represent the future of the laptop market,” Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. “They pull less power and generate less heat, and you don’t have to shield them as heavily, so they result in a smaller overall form factor.”