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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 AnonymousHero · · Score: 5, Funny

    You seem to have three hands.