Samsung to Launch Flash-Disk-Based Portable PCs

[Jelc]

Samsung Electronics will launch two portable computers next month that use flash memory in place of a hard-disk drive for data storage, the company said Tuesday.

Flash memory has long been eyed as a potential replacement for hard-disk drives because it works faster, is lighter and more shock-resistant, but it’s still more expensive. Despite the costs, flash memory chip prices are coming down to a range that some specialist users might be willing pay for the benefits.

Samsung has built 32GB of NAND flash memory into a case the same size as a 1.8-inch hard-disk drive. The so-called "solid state disk" (SSD) has the same interface as a hard-disk drive, so it can be directly substituted with little extra work.

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[Newbie Pro]

Spremaju se opake brzine.. al još uvijek je to eskapada za većinu naših džepova

[speedy-3]

a budu i cjene za koju godinu full pristupacne,,,,,, sada ce napokon i PDA uredaji dobiti veci diskovni prostor ,, ,,

[Bubba]

Autor Jelc

Flash memory has long been eyed as a potential replacement for hard-disk drives because it works faster, is lighter and more shock-resistant, but it’s still more expensive.

Flash memorija imas samo brzi RAT, STR je i dalje mizeran. O ogranicenom RW ciklusu ne bih sada... BTW, nije li NAND memorija battery dependant?

[Trek]

kolko je obicno znam da intelov 8 mb flash u linksysovom rotueru ima oko 10000 RW ciklusa, ovi u usb stickovima oko 1000000, taj disk moze imat oko 10-12 miljona?