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32 GB Flash Storage Drive Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the laptop-that-could-survive-for-more-than-30-mins dept.

Audrius writes to tell us TG Daily is reporting that Samsung has just announced a new 32 GB Flash storage device. The aim of this new solid state disk (SSD) drive is to completely replace the traditional hard drives in many laptops on the market. Some of the advantages offered are the 1.8" form factor, read speeds more than twice that of a normal hard drive, and the promise of 95% less power use.

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  1. Digital Camcorders by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I could see this having a pretty big impact on digital video cameras, too. No moving parts to break while you're running around with a handheld. Very cool!

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  2. Data Integrity by jessecurry · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will this still be useful for critical applications? What's the current failure rate of flash memory?

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  3. Reliability? by smoor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems like a nice way to go (solid state). I wonder what the life of a unit like this would be. Flash drives might be droppable, but what else can kill them? Somehow I feel better imagining that my stuff is magnetically etched into a platter... I guess I'm just old...

  4. Re:Interesting .... by GoodOmens · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Ehh so my math is slightly off. Its still roughly 37x the cost of a hard drive.

    Anyways you are right though. I can see solid state drives taking over hard drives in the future. The less moving parts the better.

    All I was trying to point out was its to early now for widespread adoption.

  5. Re:Star Trek by Akaihiryuu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The isolinear chips are actually an optical storage format. I guess you could kind of compare them to CD-RW, only they are a LOT faster, and they also store their data in 3 dimensions instead of 2. Also, a lot less effort has to be made in ST computers to make them use an optical format, because the computers themselves are optical, not electronic. Crystals instead of silicon chips, fiber optics instead of semiconductors and connecting wires. They also do some funky stuff like putting a warp field around the computer so that the fiber optics can exceed the speed of light. Actually, Star Trek tech optical tech is kind of similar to Ancient and Goa'uld (since the Goa'uld scavenged Ancient tech to come up with their stuff) tech in Stargate.