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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. Read yes, what about write? by MirgNave · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can definitely see the advantages of moving to solid state. But if we're talking about using flash, don't we have write speed and quantity (limited amount of writes) to worry about?

  2. What about burnout? by Donniedarkness · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Excuse me, but don't flash drives burn out after writing on them multiple times? Has this been resolved? If not, I would NOT put one in my laptop.

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    1. Re:What about burnout? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

      They do, but modern flash has something in the range of ~100000 writes per sector. Magnetic hard disks get about 10 times as many before they fail, but given the average hard disk is running a Windows OS which needs defragging the difference isn't all that big.

  3. Current drives only up to 80GB? by oculuses · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From TFA, "While the SSD's capacity of 32 GB cannot compete with traditional hard drives that currently offers up to 80 GB space..." So if the author does not know how big current drives Really are, how accurate could we expect the other numbers to be?

  4. Re:Warning... by Ced_Ex · · Score: 0, Redundant

    These flash drives still have very low rotational speeds. I'd wait a few years until they get them spinning a little faster

    Very low? The rotational speed is 0 rpms!

    So, even if they got it to spin by a fraction, you will have INFINITE speed! I'm guessing they'll have it by next year.

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