Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) maker Samsung to release a 64 GB solid state drive (SSD)
According to Digital Trend News' Geoff Duncan, Samsung is preparing to launch a 1.8 inch 64 GB SSD by the end of 2007Q2. Wrote Duncan:
The market for flash-based solid state disk drives which act as drop-in replacements for traditional hard drives used in mobile and portable devices is heating up: Samsung announced today that it plans to ship a 64 GB solid state drive in the second quarter of this year......Samsung claims the respective read and write performance on the drive have been increased by 20 and 60 percent: the 64 GB unit can read 64 MB/S, write 45 MB/s, and consumes just half a Watt when operating (one tenth of a Watt when idle). In comparison, an 80 GB 1.8-inch hard drive reads at 15 MB/s, writes at 7 MB/s, and eats 1.5 Watts either operating or when idle.
No word yet on whether the new drives will be an option in the Q1s and what sort of lettuce that'll set you back.