Samsung's Solid-State Disk Drive Unveiled

Iddo Genuth writes "After unveiling their upcoming hybrid hard drive, Samsung — along with a number of other manufacturers — is planning to begin shipping solid-state drives during 2007. Unlike the upcoming hybrids, solid-state drives should work with windows XP as well as Vista." The drives will be introduced in 1.8- and 2.5-inch form factors for notebooks. While streaming performance can't equal that of hard disks, Samsung claims that random-access performance is more important and that (e.g.) Vista users would see a 4x speedup in many key operations. Pricing was not announced.

Re:inflection point is coming

[Anonymous Coward]

What the...WE HAVE SHARP METAL DISCS SPINNING @ 7200prm ON OUR LAPS?!

HEAVENS TO BETSEY!

Re:Not on XP?

[danpsmith]

Could someone tell me why one type of drive wouldn't work with a specific version of Windows? Shouldn't they be able to write drivers for that?

Ah, you must be new here. It's not that it wouldn't work, it just doesn't, you dig? No? Well, here's a Vista t-shirt.

Oh good!

[theGil]

Vista users would see a 4x speedup in many key operations.

So now this might get Vista running half as fast as every other operating system, right?

Re:Not on XP?

[AnonymousHero]

You seem to have three hands.

"Gripping Hand"

[MondoMor]

He's probably just a Niven/Pournelle fan.

Re:Not on XP?

[k31bang]

You seem to have three hands.

Sooo, no need to type one handed like the rest of us.

Re:Hate to break it to ya

[Anonymous Coward]

The only one who will admit it anyway.

Re:inflection point is coming

[rrohbeck]

What the...WE HAVE SHARP METAL DISCS SPINNING @ 7200prm ON OUR LAPS?!

Worse... Glass!