High-speed 32 GB Flash hard drive has appeared

Are you ready for a laptop with a hard drive without a spin, less battery life, light weight and no noise? That's what you'll get with Samsung's new 32GB SSD (Solid State Drive) hard drive.

Following sample test results and comparing it to the Seagate 5400rpm drives using the latest perpendicular recording technology and the common vertical recording technology, SSDs find files twice as fast and speed up. system start up. The speed difference is actually an impressive number: 25% - although SSDs are sometimes slower in tests involving multiple disk access times and faster in read and write tasks.

Samsung's new SSD hard drive

Currently 32GB and 16GB drives are only available to device manufacturers. Based on the current cost of US $ 63 per 4GB chip, it will take some time to get the same price as the notebook hard drives currently around US $ 2 per GB.

Although the price of SSDs is still high, its advantages such as anti-noise, light weight, perfect shock resistance and low power consumption have accelerated the appearance of this product on the market. .

Tests show that the SSD's shock resistance is 1500G, which indicates it can withstand most vibrations, while hard drives usually only reach 200-300G.

Such a high impact resistance but the weight of this product is very light, weighing only 49.77 grams compared to other 2.5inch drives is about 108.87 gr and the 1.8 inch SSD drive will be even lighter. However, don't expect to save a lot of battery life. When tested, SSDs only increased battery life by 9% compared to Seagate Momentus 5400.3 drives (4 hours 25 minutes compared to 4 hours 3 minutes).

So far, Samsung has only introduced SSD hard drives into Q30 laptops exclusively for the Japanese market; However, the company is also negotiating with US manufacturers to bring SSD laptops and mobile devices into this market.

HOANG TUNG