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00:49:16Januar 04, 2007 (11:01 AM EST)
SanDisk And Samsung Want To Replace Hard Disks In Laptops With
Flash Drives
By W. David Gardner,
Another format and standards battle is brewing, but this one
doesn't involved high-definition video. SanDisk Corp. and Samsung
Electronics Co., Ltd. are battling over NAND flash memory. SanDisk
on Thursday sought to trump Samsung with a 32-Gbyte solid-state
disk drive (SSD.) The day before Samsung said it had begun sampling
16-Gbyte memories using an advanced 50-nanometer process
technology.
Both companies want to see their technology built into laptop
computers. The SSD battle is being waged over different features
including capacity, access speed, size and shape, reliability, and
price. The flash memory technology has also been increasingly
poaching on traditional hard drive technology, which continues to
surpass SSD in capacity and other features.
"Once we begin shipping the 32-Gbyte SSD for notebooks PCs, we
expect to see its increasing adoption in the coming years as we
continue to reduce the cost of flash memory," said Eli Harari,
SanDisk CEO, in a statement. "When these SSD devices become more
affordable, we expect that their superior features over rotating
disk drives will create a new consumer category for our retail
sales channels worldwide."
SanDisk said the new drive could increase the price of a laptop by
about $600 when they appear in machines in the first half of 2007.
That price is something of a breakthrough compared with Samsung's
32-Gbyte NAND drive that was launched last spring with a much
higher price.
Samsung, which said it plans to begin mass production of its new
NAND drive in the first quarter, noted that the 50-nm technology
improves density while doubling read speed and boosting write
performance by 150%.
Both high capacity SSD drives will be initially aimed at enterprise
and corporate users while consumer markets are expected to follow
after prices drop.
SanDisk said its 32-Gbyte drive will boot Vista quickly, observing
that the 1.8-inch device can boot Vista Enterprise in 35 seconds
versus the 55 seconds that are required to boot the Microsoft
operating system with a hard disk drive.
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