Samsung's Solid-State Drive (SSD) is an advanced NAND flash-based replacement for traditional hard disk drives, leveraging the company's longtime leadership in memory technology. This next-generation solution offers several advantages over rotating magnetic media such as significantly lower power consumption, remarkable ruggedness, high reliability, less weight and outstanding performance. According to iSuppli, approximately 60% of notebooks will have flash-enabled storage by 2010.
"No other SATA-based flash SSD shows such low power requirements in idle and when active, and no other flash SSD provides balanced performance across all benchmarks."
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The SSD system includes NAND flash memory, controller, connectors and other elements on a printed circuit board and can fully replace hard drives in notebook, sub-notebook and tablet PCs. Its weight is approximately half that of a conventional hard drive, thus further increasing easy system portability. The device also uses less power — about .5W in operational mode and less than 0.04W in standby mode. In a typical use scenario combining read/write, seek and standby, the SSD requires roughly one-tenth the power of a hard drive. This gives users more than 30 minutes of additional use before a battery charge is needed. The drive comes in PATA and SATA versions in 2.5- and 1.8-inch form factors.
Excellent Read/Write and Boot-up Performance
The performance of Samsung's SSD exceeds that of a similarly sized hard drive by more than 150%. For example, it can read data at a rate of up to 220MB per second and achieves write speeds of up to 200MB per second, depending on the SSD model. Its speed lets PC users cut boot-up time in half when compared to a conventional 1.8-inch hard drive. As a non-volatile storage device, the SSD has no moving parts such as the motor, disks and heads of a hard drive.
Thus it eliminates spin-up time, seek time and rotational latency while delivering sustained high-speed data transfers. The SSD is also extremely friendly to its surroundings. Its lack of moving parts makes it noise free and its ultra-low power consumption virtually eliminates heat emissions.
The SSD is also highly rugged, standing up to shock and vibration damage while performing in extended temperature conditions. These performance features make it well suited to a broad range of environments, including those in the demanding military and industrial areas.
Getting our exceptionally high performing 256GB SSD in a notebook is analogous to having a 15,000rpm drive, without all of its size, noise, power and heating drawbacks!
SSD saves you a lot of money on notebooks and in data centers
Hard disk drives seem inexpensive, but are they really? When you consider the frequency of hard drive crashes in mobile PC's or, in the case of data centers, the accumulated cost for energy consumption you'll realise the Samsung SSD can save you money at a very significant rate.
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Key Features & Benefits
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Supports Variety of PCs
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With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now offers the most extensive line of SSDs in the industry with 8, 16, and 32GB SSDs for low-density designs and 64, 128 and 256GB alternatives for the higher densities. Samsung's 256GB SSD is also available with optional proprietary encryption programming that provides full disk encryption, a key feature for many corporate users. Learn more about our available form factors as well as speed and performance comparisons.
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