High-Speed Solid State Drives, the future is here.
Imagine a harddrive that can access it’s data almost instantaneously, has no moving parts and has very low power consumption. Samsung has just introduced such a device to the general public; 32GB of storage, in a 1.8-inch enclosure, with a introductory price tag of $600 USD. The benefits of such a device is that you can extend the battery life of your laptop, much faster data access…it is said that Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise boots in as little as 35 seconds…You don’t have to worry about damaging and possibly losing the drive/data in the event of your laptop taking a fall.
With no moving parts, it does not need to spin into action or seek files in the way that conventional hard disk drives do.
The new SSD achieves a sustained read rate of 62M bps and a random read rate of 7,000 IOPS (inputs/outputs per second) for a 512-byte transfer—more than 100 times faster than most hard disk drives, the spokesperson said.
Taking advantage of this performance, a laptop PC equipped with SanDisk SSD can boot Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise in as little as 35 seconds, the spokesperson said. It also can achieve an average file access rate of 0.12 milliseconds, compared with 55 seconds and 19 milliseconds, respectively, for a laptop PC with a hard disk drive, the spokesperson said.
The new SSD features a low power consumption rate compared to the hard disk drive: 0.4 watt during active operation versus 1.0 watt.