Samsung's 64-GB Solid-State Drive

Anonymous Howard writes "Just a couple of weeks ago Sandisk introduced a 32-GB solid-state drive. Now Samsung has one-upped them, unveiling a 64-GB solid-state drive. They are expecting to begin shipping in the second quarter of this year. Samsung says the device can read 64 MB/s, write 45 MB/s, and uses just 0.5 W when operating (0.1 W when idle). In comparison, an 80-GB 1.8-inch hard drive reads at 15 MB/s, writes at 7 MB/s, and consumes 1.5 W when either operating or idle. No pricing yet."

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[blakmac]

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'm actually working from home doing tech support right now. I can tell you pretty firmly that I don't care what OS your running, our diag programs all work outside the OS, so while our best effort software support for linux might not be the greatest since we're generally used to dealing with windows XP. I'll give you a new HDD if your HDD dies irregardless of what OS is loaded on it. I can't believe the HP techs would be such dicks to customers on the phone but I blame their management for that. On our end we're trained pretty hardcore to satisfy the customer and even bend the rules if absolutely necessary for customer satisfaction. The idea of turning around a customer for an OS we aren't absolute experts on it isn't just stupid, it's actually fairly offensive to the customer as well. I know as a geek and even as a tech support agent, I'd be cheesed off if some guy in tech support tried to void my warranty for that.