Thread: Samsung minimize SSDs for Netbooks

Samsung to launch solid-state hard drive (SSD) is smaller than the traditional netbooks and SSD hard drives reduce power consumption significantly. Samsung solid-state mini-cards utilizes up to 80% less than the SSD hard drive found in most notebook computers today, the company said. Small hard drive which will weigh 7.5 grams (0.17 pounds) or almost 8.5 grams, less than 75 grams to 85 grams of 1.8 inches and 2.5-inch SSD hard drive weight.

SSDs for small netbooks, it is thin and light notebook PCs designed basic computing tasks such as Internet access and word processing. Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme can be greatly reduced weight and power consumption of the netbooks. The drive can be easily connected to the motherboard, they do not need special insert slot, said Brian Beard, product marketing manager of Samsung. They consume about 0.3 watts of power compared to an average of about 1.1 watts of 2.5-inch SSD hard drive.

One caution is that the new drive has a low storage capacity of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB and even available in smaller storage capacity. Larger to provide greater SSD storage up to 256GB. Samsung has not yet declared about the price of SSD hard drive.

Samsung has sold more samples of the PC hard drive manufacturers, who may include their notebook computers in the second half of this year. Company officials refused to comment on the increase in storage capacity, of solid-state mini-card, 32GB storage.

The drive can also be used as the second netbooks drive to supplement the hard disk storage, Beard said. For example, the operating system data can be stored in the solid-state hard drive, and hard drives can store data, photos and important documents. The drive can also be stored in the embedded devices such as printers and rugged mobile devices.

The driver provides a read-write performance of about 200 points and Fast Mickey difference bps, which is lower than the read speed of about 2.2 basis points, and 1.8 per second write speed large-capacity drives. Greater use of more chips hard to make their reading and writing faster, Beard said. Small hard drive using the SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) interface to communicate the main board. SSD hard drive reduces power consumption and access to data more quickly than hard drives. However, the high cost of solid-state hard drive, so that people continue to use the hard drive has been stored in notebook computers.

People often can not tell the difference between the performance of netbooks with the hard disk and SSD hard drive. Hard drive netbook, has an average of four hours of battery may be to see it increased the battery life of the SSD hard drive for half an hour.