Samsung's Solid State Disks fully compatible with Windows

Samsung Electronics announced that its three Solid State Disk (SSD) drives
have been officially recognized by Microsoft Corporation as fully qualified
Windows-compatible peripherals. After thorough testing by its Windows Hardware
Qualification Lab (WHQL), Microsoft has validated that Samsung SSDs meet all of
the requirements for storage media in a Windows operating environment.

“Microsoft's certification to Samsung's SSDs provides an added
assurance to designers of full compatibility in a demanding Windows environment.
These SSDs add a strong dose of speed, reliability and power savings,” said
Jon Kang, Senior VP-Technical Marketing, Samsung Semiconductor.

Samsung's SSDs also remarkably enhance system performance. The SSDs have a
data read speed of 57MB/s and data write speed of 32MB/s, more than double the
performance levels of a 1.8-inch HDD. Moreover, the SSDs provide a performance
boost of up to 50 times that of a 1.8 HDD when servicing small, random data 'read'
requests. Such faster speeds shorten application program operating time as well
as system boot time.

Samsung's new Solid State memory solutions also enable longer battery life.
Their power usage rate in an operational mode is less than 0.5W and in sleep
mode just 40mW, which extends battery usage up to 30 minutes. With no moving
parts, Samsung's SSDs provide higher reliability with greater resistance
against vibration, shock, extreme temperature, noise and heat emission.
Microsoft has certified a 32GB 1.8-inch sized Samsung SSD, a 32GB slim-type
Samsung SSD (53.6x70.6x3.0mm) and a 16GB small-type SSD (56x48x3.8mm). The new
sizes support the physical requirements of sub-notebook PCs.

The SSDs' substantial size and weight advantages are expected to further
encourage a steady adoption of SSDs into a number of PC applications, such as in
ultra mobile PCs, 'ruggedized' notebooks and special industrial
applications.