When it comes to storage technology on computers, hard drive
technology has advanced the slowest as far as performance is
concerned. Companies like Samsung are looking to Flash Solid
State Disks (SSDs) to replace the spinning disk and reduce
loading times for applications. SSDs have the advantage of rapid
response times without having to wait for a hard drive to spin
up/seek and have drastically reduced power consumption compared
to traditional hard drives. SSDs use zero watts when not being
accessed, and as little as 200 milliwatts during Given the lower
power requirements, company’s like Sony and Fujitsu are looking
to Samsung to provide SSDs for their mobile computers. Samsung
also uses its SSD drives on the Q30 notebook and Q1 UMPC.
Samsung announced today that it has produced samples of the
world's first 16Gb NAND flash memory device built on a 50
nanometer process. The multi-level cell (MLC) design uses a 4KB
page size instead of the 2KB used in competing designs. As a
result, read speeds are double tha