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Why Samsung Got Rid Of The Hard Disk |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 25 May 2006 |
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Page 1 of 3 Samsung has announced two mobilised computing devices using solid state technology instead of traditional hard disk drives. It's an idea whose time has come, but why is it such a good idea?
Taking the Flash drive a step further than it did last week, Samsung has now announced it plans to release computers based solely on its FLASH memory storage, completely doing away with traditional magnetic disk media.
It is a move that might ultimately damage sales of notebook disk drives from the likes of Maxtor and Seagate. Samsung Electronics has announced the Q30-SSD and Q1-SSD mobility computers which operate solely on their onboard 32GB flash memory drives.
While notebook makers have been busy building anti-shock protection into their notebooks to protect spinning disks from the rigours of life on the move, a perfect solution has been waiting for a price point that will completely do away with the need for hard disk drives in notebook computers.
 Samsung's latest mobility products for the Korean market Use Solid State Disks instead of traditional hard disk drives.
Samsung says the Solid State Disks (SSD) can withstand about twice the impact that would cripple a regular hard disk drive. In addition, stored data can be more easily retrieved from flash memory than traditional hard drives when PCs are dropped or liquid is spilled on the device.
Similar to the One Laptop Per Child project notebook’s, the Samsung devices will have non-volatile Flash memory as their primary storage technology.
Unlike the One Laptop Per Child devices, which have only 1GB of RAM, the Samsung models will launch with a 32GB solid state disk.
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