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Samsung Develops Flash-Based Disk Drive
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
May 24, 2005, 12:45 PM
Samsung says it has developed a way to store up to 16GB of data using flash-based memory, a development that could lead to extended battery life for notebook and tablet PCs. Flash memory has a power consumption that is five percent of today's hard disk drive, according to the company.

These Solid-State Disk (SSD) flash-based disk drives will also provide faster access to data, at about two-and-a-half times the speed of current notebook drives. In tests, Samsung was able to read data at 57 megabytes per second (MBps) and write at 32MBps.


Flash drives also offer the benefit of less noise and heat emissions. It is also less temperature and humidity-sensitive, meaning it can be used in a wider array of applications and environments.

The disk drive itself will look much like a regular 1.8 inch hard-disk-drive, meaning manufacturers will have to make minimal adjustments to designs to incorporate the new drives.

Samsung expects flash-memory drives to make the move from MP3 players and digital cameras to larger consumer devices as flash-based drive capacity continues to expand.

Flash-based drives based on the new technology are expected on the market by August of this year.

For the next LifeDrive perhaps?

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