Goodbye to hard disk drives?

by Julian Prokaza
on Wed 09 Jul 2008 1 Comment

How long now until all notebook manufacturers ditch traditional hard disk storage in favour of solid-state drives (SSDs)? Reading between the lines of the latest press release from Samsung, it could be as little as a year and a half.

The company has today announced SSDs with a capacity of 128GB, in both 1.8 and 2.5in forms. Samsung says that its new SSD models have a write speed of 70MB/s and a read speed of 90MB/s. As well, the firm says that this latest 128GB device will last "approximately 20 times longer than the generally accepted 4-5 year life span of a notebook PC hard drive".

Plenty dull and worth but for our money, the most interesting figure is hidden way down at the very bottom of the press release. And what is that number? Click the Read more link to find out.

A footnote Samsung’s press release says that the company expects sales of SSDs "to increase 800 percent between now and 2010". That would be a huge increase over any timeframe but, unless notebook sales are also going to grow eight-fold over the next 18 months, there will have to be a major decline in the sales of traditional 1.8 and 2.5in hard disks for Samsung’s projection to pan out. What are the chances of that? Well, we guess we’ll just have to wait until 2010 to find out.

[via Gizmodo]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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    by shaks at 07:20 on 4 Sep 2008Report abuse

    yes i think solid state is here to stayhttp://www.mobile-computing-news.co.uk

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