Samsung's Solid-Flash Drives get Vista Certification
The Samsung electronic announced that it has received Vista certification for its flash-based solid-state disk drives or SSDs from Microsoft'S Windows Hardware Qualification Lab (WHQL).
Samsung Electronics has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory-based replacement for hard disks. The drive packs 32GB of flash memory into a case the same size as a 1.8-inch hard drive.
The company plans to offer two variants of these solid flash drives a 32 GB 2.5-inch form factor version and a slim-type devices with capacities of 16 and 32 GB.
Samsung claims that the drives will reach data speeds of 57MB/s and data write speeds of 32MB/s, which is more than double the performance of a typical hard disk.
Recently test were conducted by Tom's Hardware Guide and it found that these SSDs used only 0.9 watts under full load and when idle demanded only0.05 watts thus leading to a longer battery back-up in notebooks.
Price is yet to be announced.
Via: Tgdaily
