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Samsung Mass Produces 128GB SSD

Posted by timothy on from the elusive-samsung-mass-that-einstein-predicted dept.

Lucas123 writes "Samsung Electronics said today it is now mass-producing solid-state drives with a 128GB capacity, and it will begin production of a 256GB product later this year, ahead of its scheduled 2009 release. Samsung's 128GB and 64GB SSDs are available in 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. Currently, solid state disk costs about $3.45 per gigabyte and spinning disk costs about $0.38 per gig."

2 of 121 comments (clear)

  1. Re:power consumption... by backtick · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Power consumption for SSD's is currently worse than for standard laptop drives.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955.html

  2. Re:power consumption... by ckaminski · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Didn't Toms Hardware or Ars Technica just do an expose on how SSDs are not completely as low-power as advertised?