The hard drive is losing its advantage over NAND flash images 1 Samsung's 16 GB flash SSD. ( LetsGoDigital ) South Korean electronics firm Samsung has announced that it has successfully developed a 32 GB solid-state drive (SSD), half as heavy as a rotating HDD, reading data three times faster and recording with speed. 1.5 times more thanks to NAND flash technology.

The aforementioned new data storage medium is for laptops, which helps to process information quickly but still consumes less power than conventional hard drives. The product also works quite quietly due to not using the motor (motor) and other noise components.

Samsung has just released a laptop with SSD at its annual Mobile Solutions Conference in Taipei on March 21. This is also the first time the NAND flash chip, still equipped for cameras, music devices, mobile phones . appears in the laptop.

" Flash memory will soon replace hard drives in every mobile computing application, " Samsung said. The company estimates that by 2008, laptops using SSDs will account for 30% of the global laptop market. Meanwhile, the price of 32 GB SSD has dropped from the current 500 USD to 200 USD. SSD revenue also grew strongly from US $ 540 million in 2006 to US $ 4.5 billion in 2010.