Wednesday, March 5th 2008
Samsung Could Deliver 256GB SSD Drives in 2009
Samsung Electronics could deliver 256GB solid-state drives next year, quadrupling the capacity of SSDs it is currently shipping to PC makers, the company informed. Now Samsung is only producing 64GB SATA 3.0 Gbps 2.5" SSD drives, but the company is planning on releasing samples of 128GB SSDs in the middle of this year. A spokesman also commented that Samsung is trying to double SSD capacity every 12 months, leading to information that 256GB SSDs may become widely available sometime in 2009. The current price of a 64GB single-level SSD is around $600. SSD drives have no moving parts. They're more power-efficient, lighter and up to two times faster than today's conventional mobile hard drives.
Source:
PC World
6 Comments on Samsung Could Deliver 256GB SSD Drives in 2009
We all know that SSD drives are not that expensive to produce, and that the price is simply the manufacturers way to make as much money as possible from early adopters. Not that I blame them though; with the cut-throat margins in the HDD business I understand the need to make a killing elsewhere. Just a shame for consumers.
These are cheap, mass produced drives. they are made for laptops and power users, NOT mass storage.
And I really don't subscribe to this evolutional capacity / speed increase; what we need is a revolution like holographic storage. It's always mass storage that restrics the potential speed of a modern system, and I for one am dying to move on.