Samsung develops NAND-based hard disk drive replacement

Samsung Electronics recently announced that it has developed the first Solid
State Disk (SSD) based on NAND Flash memory technology for consumer and mobile
PC applications. This is a low power, lightweight storage media for notebook
PCs, sub-notebook PCs and tablet PCs. Using the industry's highest density 8Gb
(Gigabit) NAND Flash, Samsung can build SSDs with a capacity of up to 16GB.

The SSD has a power consumption rate less than 5% of today's hard disk
drives (HDDs), enabling next generation mobile PCs to extend their battery life
by more than 10%. The NAND-based SSD weighs less than half that of a comparably
sized HDD.

Free of moving parts, the Samsung SSD memory has minimal noise and heat
emission. Moreover, it is a highly reliable storage media that endures
exceptionally well in environments with extreme temperatures and humidity,
making it suited for industrial and military applications.

The SSD's performance rate exceeds that of a comparably sized HDD by more
than 150%. The storage disk reads data at 57 MegaBytes per second (MBps) and
writes it at 32MBps.

The
market leader in global NAND flash memory since 2002, Samsung has invested heavily
to achieve double-density growth every year, further driving the market to higher
memory densities and more affordable pricing.

To ensure compatibility, SSDs have been designed to look like HDDs from the
outside. Samsung has developed a full line up of SSDs: 2.5-inch type SSDs that
carry 16 NAND Flash devices of 4Gbit or 8Gbit density for 8GBytes and16GByte of
storage respectively. 1.8-inch type SSDs will also offer 4GBytes or 8GBytes of
density.

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