The 64GB Solid State Disk

Even though the SSD market is just at the beginning of the road, some of the manufacturing companies have already taken a great deal of interest into this technology, and assume that in the near future all of the desktop and mobile computers will feature an SSD. Who am I to argue on how the market is going to evolve, and how each individual manufacturer will deal with this technology? After all, much was said when Serial ATA came around the market, and now, companies have started taking out the IDE connectors on the newer motherboards, so much for that standard.

One of the "dinosaurs" that survived longer than anyone could have expected is the Floppy Disk Drive, no matter what you try to throw at it, it still stands strong on its feet. Although it served a great many number of purposes the first time it was around, this domination is being undermined and soon we shall see the end of yet another "old school" part of the PC. From the introduction of Serial ATA drivers directly into the chipset of a motherboard and continuing to Windows Vista's option of taking different sets on drivers from a USB memory stick, an optical unit and so on, the floppy disk drives days are being numbered.

A high school teacher once told me that in physics, nothing is lost, everything is transformed, and the same principle applies here as well, SSD drives are taking over regular hard drive, just as Serial ATA took over IDE as the main connection in a PC. Regarding this, Samsung has released a new 1.8-inch 64GB SSD, thus doubling their former offer, which was of 32GB in size.

Samsung's offer is based on eight gigabit SLC NAND's, read/write performance grew to 64MB/s and 45MB/s respectively, compared to 53MB/s and 30MB/s as the previous 32GB model was able to provide. To make it an even more appealing offer, the SSD drives are equipped with the same connection interface as the regular hard drives, making them a drop-in replacement. Samsung also believes that the growth of the market will be of 200% per year, going from an expected $200 million in 2007 to $6.8 billion in 2010.