Suhit Gupta
04-03-2007, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12556.html' target='_blank'>http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12556.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The market for flash-based solid state disk drives which act as drop-in replacements for traditional hard drives used in mobile and portable devices is heating up: Samsung announced today that it plans to ship a 64 GB solid state drive in the second quarter of this year. The announcement comes on the heels of SanDisk announcing a 32 GB flash drive only a couple weeks ago, and Fujitsu announcing solid state drives as an option in selected LifeBook portable computers. Not only does Samsung's new offering increase the capacity available in solid state drives, it increases the performance as well. Samsung claims the respective read and write performance on the drive have been increased by 20 and 60 percent: the 64 GB unit can read 64 MB/S, write 45 MB/s, and consumes just half a Watt when operating (one tenth of a Watt when idle)."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/1175015178_500-64GB-18inch-SSD.jpg" /><br /><br />64GB is just an incredible amount of space in such a small form factor with the speed that it supports. I would love to see all cameras have one of these bad boys built in for videos as well as RAW images storage. Of course, then having wi-fi built in to then move that data off rapidly and easily would also be cool, but one dream at a time. :)