Samsung says it has begun offering a 32 gigabyte NAND flash solid state disk drive, a development the South Korean company calls a “historic milestone” for flash memory as it enters the mass market for notebook PCs, which today rely on hard disk drive technology. Samsung announced the new flash-based solid state drive at the Mobile Solution Forum in Taiwan, indicating it would eliminate the moving parts of HDDs and deliver noise and power consumption advantages in addition to more rugged PC memory.
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Samsung Stretches Flash Memory for Mobile PCs
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 22, 2006 01:30 PMSamsung says it has begun offering a 32 gigabyte NAND flash solid state disk drive, a development the South Korean company calls a “historic milestone” for flash memory as it enters the mass market for notebook PCs, which today rely on hard disk drive technology. Samsung announced the new flash-based solid state drive at the Mobile Solution Forum in Taiwan, indicating it would eliminate the moving parts of HDDs and deliver noise and power consumption advantages in addition to more rugged PC memory.