Samsung samples 500GB laptop HDD

‘I scoff at your less capacious SSD’

With notebook-oriented SSDs now hitting the 250GB mark, Samsung has introduced a laptop-friendly hard drive offering double that capacity.¡K

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URL: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/04/22/samsung_samples_500gb_hdd/

$24,000 in SSDs in a single PC

Samsung has some fun with 24 SSDs in a single PC.  A gamer’s dream!  If they’re $1,000 per drive, it’s a rich gamer, but fun nontheless.

This demo hints at the game changing nature of SSD once price per GB comes down over the next few years.  Expect the first major inroads in the high-end server market where an SSD can take the place of multiple ’abused’ hard drives, as Objective Analysis calls short-stroked drives. 

In actuality, desktop PCs are the last place we’re likely to see them for good reason.

URL: http://media.seagate.com/2009/03/storage-effect/24000-in-ssds-in-a-single-pc/

Samsung PB22-J 256GB SSD

Our new favourite solid-state drive

Review  The catchily named Samsung PB22-J MMDOE56G5MXP-0VB weighs in at 256GB and is the biggest SSD we’ve seen to date. Biggest, that is, in terms of capacity. Physically, it follows the usual 2.5in hard drive form-factor and measures 100 x 70 x 9.5mm. Cosmetically, it’s an attractive drive that has a brushed metal finish but, let’s face it, once the drive is installed, you couldn’t care less what it looks like.…

URL: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/03/17/review_storage_ssd_samsung_mmd0e56g5/