Samsung announced the general availability of it’s 32GB NAND Flash SSD at the Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taiwan yesterday. The company sees a bright future for these replacements for hard disk drives. Hwang Chang-gyu, head of Samsung Electronics made the following remarkable prediction at the event: “SSD will take over 30 percent of the current laptop HDD market within the next two or three years”.
Solid State Disks are ideal for the notebook market because they use about 1/3 less power and weigh less than 1/2 that of a comparable hard disk drive. In addition, SSDs provide about 3x faster data access and are more durable. Flash memory, however, is at least 10x more expensive than hard disks, so what Hwang is saying is that flash storage will decrease in price substantially over the 2-3 years.
Samsung Aims to Lead Mobile Revolution – Chosun Ilbo, Mar.21,2006
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I never realized that SSD’s offered data access that was that much faster.