Original URL: http://www.reghardware.com/2007/06/25/samsung_64gd_ssd/
Samsung punches out 64GB SDDs
Samsung now purports to be the largest producer of high-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) in the world, following a decision to push its 1.8in 64GB unit into mass production.
The manufacturer has been touting SSDs for over a year now, but this is the first time it has mass produced the 1.8in drives. The production ramp-up comes less than one week after Toshiba announced its lightest ever laptop [1], which features a 64GB SSD.
Samsung claims SSDs are increasing in popularity, thanks mainly to their greater reliability, faster data-access times and reduced battery consumption, compared to standard HDDs.
The SSD market is becoming increasingly competitive. Samsung's 1.8in 64GB SSD was announced in March [2], just two months after SanDisk showed off a 1.8in 32GB SSD [3].
Dell has also begun offering its customers SSDs, though not to the extent of Toshiba, by allowing buyers of its Latitude D420 sub-notebook [4] to kit out the machine with a SanDisk 32GB SSD.