Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/25/samsung_64gd_ssd/
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 (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/21/toshiba_releases_r500/), 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 (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/27/sams_doubles_ssd_capacity/), just two months after SanDisk showed off a 1.8in 32GB SSD (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/04/sandisk_launches_flash_hard_drive/).
Dell has also begun offering its customers SSDs, though not to the extent of Toshiba, by allowing buyers of its Latitude D420 sub-notebook (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/04/25/dell_to_offer_sandisk_ssd/) to kit out the machine with a SanDisk 32GB SSD.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/dell_solid_state_drives/
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/29/micron_does_ssd_drives/
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/bitmicro_altima_tb_ssd/
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/05/samsung_samples_sata_2_ssd/
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/12/dell_alienware_price_ssds/
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/06/21/toshiba_releases_r500/
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/04/25/dell_to_offer_sandisk_ssd/
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/27/sams_doubles_ssd_capacity/
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/04/sandisk_launches_flash_hard_drive/
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