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samsung 16gb hard disk

#1 Post by Roisin » Mon May 30, 2005 11:49 am

http://news.com.com/Samsung+develops+fl ... 17287.html

The company announced Monday that it has developed a "solid-state disk" using flash memory for PCs, which traditionally have used hard drives. The 1.8-inch NAND flash-based disks, which will be available in August, will have a capacity of up to 16GB. The first disks will target sub-notebooks and tablet PCs.

The company said the solid state disk is made up of 8-gigabit chips and consumes power at a rate of less than 5 percent of current hard-disk drives.

The disks will read data at 57MB per second (megabytes per second) and write at 32MB per second, according to Samsung.

The disks will also come with a hard-drive style interface, making it easier for manufacturers to use them in PCs.

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#2 Post by K. Eng » Mon May 30, 2005 12:03 pm

Just a friendly reminder to NOT to post general news or comments in the T series forum! :)
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#3 Post by RS_003 » Mon May 30, 2005 4:19 pm

And now the price :)

(should put it in a X4x ... the moment they do that .. and i don't need to use the crappy slow 1.8" hdd anymore ill buy a new X4x :))
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#4 Post by K. Eng » Mon May 30, 2005 5:12 pm

I'd like to see drives like this in iPod type devices. I'm always a bit afraid that the HDD in my 4G iPod will bite it.
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#5 Post by RS_003 » Tue May 31, 2005 5:05 am

4G is 2.5" hdd?

And mini's use 1.0" hdd's


so bad luck :P no flash hdd for your ipod :P
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#6 Post by K. Eng » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:58 pm

4G (and every other regular iPod) uses a 1.8" drive. The only bad luck for me is the price on the flash drive :(
RS_003 wrote:4G is 2.5" hdd?

And mini's use 1.0" hdd's


so bad luck :P no flash hdd for your ipod :P
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