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Samsung's Solid-State Disk Drive Unveiled

Posted by kdawson on from the fast-and-flashy dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "After unveiling their upcoming hybrid hard drive, Samsung — along with a number of other manufacturers — is planning to begin shipping solid-state drives during 2007. Unlike the upcoming hybrids, solid-state drives should work with windows XP as well as Vista." The drives will be introduced in 1.8- and 2.5-inch form factors for notebooks. While streaming performance can't equal that of hard disks, Samsung claims that random-access performance is more important and that (e.g.) Vista users would see a 4x speedup in many key operations. Pricing was not announced.

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  1. Re:inflection point is coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the...WE HAVE SHARP METAL DISCS SPINNING @ 7200prm ON OUR LAPS?!

    HEAVENS TO BETSEY!

  2. Re:Not on XP? by danpsmith · · Score: 4, Funny
    Could someone tell me why one type of drive wouldn't work with a specific version of Windows? Shouldn't they be able to write drivers for that?

    Ah, you must be new here. It's not that it wouldn't work, it just doesn't, you dig? No? Well, here's a Vista t-shirt.

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  3. Oh good! by theGil · · Score: 3, Funny
    Vista users would see a 4x speedup in many key operations.

    So now this might get Vista running half as fast as every other operating system, right?
  4. Re:Not on XP? by AnonymousHero · · Score: 5, Funny

    You seem to have three hands.

  5. Re:Not on XP? by k31bang · · Score: 4, Funny
    You seem to have three hands.


    Sooo, no need to type one handed like the rest of us.
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  6. Re:inflection point is coming by rrohbeck · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the...WE HAVE SHARP METAL DISCS SPINNING @ 7200prm ON OUR LAPS?!

    Worse... Glass!

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