Samsung Introduces Industry’s First-ever 1.8-inch, 64 GB SSD

Competition among companies bodes well for the consumers. Nowhere is this more exemplified than in the gadget-market. Take this for instance:

To combat SanDisk’s 32 GB flash drive that the company announced a couple of weeks back, Samsung Electronics has also unveiled its plans to ship its 64 GB solid state drive (SSD) in the second quarter of this year.

This 1.8-inch model promises to offer 20 to 60 percent more read and write performance and its 64 GB unit can read 64 MB/S, write 45 MB/s and drink half a Watt when functioning and one tenth of a Watt when idle. Those are some pretty impressive numbers.

If we contrast this new drive with 80 GB 1.8-inch hard drive, which reads at 15 MB/s, writes at 7 MB/s, and consume 1.5 Watts either operating or when idle, I think Samsung’s this upcoming shot will certainly spread amidst consumers like fire in the jungle.

Although Samsung targets portable computers’ makers with this product, there’s no doubt that ultimately consumers will reap the benefits in form of faster and yet larger memories (not in terms of physical size you dumbo, but in terms of larger storage capacity).

[Source: Solsie]