This is really good news . . . the reality of a fully functional - as in Windows/Linux OS that is not scaled down - could be in the future for pocket pcs. One can only imagine. :)
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is now offering a 32GB (gigabyte) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD), marking the first time that NAND flash has moved into mobile computing applications.
The 32GB Flash-SSD, which serves the same purpose as a hard disk drive, is a data storage medium for notebooks and other mobile computers. It uses instantly-accessible, non-moving NAND flash memory instead of the rotating discs found in hard drives; therefore can upload and download data quickly and quietly with minimal power consumption.
The Flash-SSD weighs only half as much as a comparably-sized hard drive, but reads data three times faster and writes data 1.5 times faster. The SSD uses just five percent of the electricity needed to power a hard disc drive and is noiseless. Its design is free of any motor or other mechanical parts.
Samsung says a 1.8" Flash-SSD can read at speeds of up to 57Mbps and write 32Mbps, while a similar sized 1.8" HDD will perform these operations with a maximum speed of 15Mbps. Power consumptions is 0.1W (off) and 0.5W (on) compared to 1.5W on a HDD unit.
Doesn't Flash memory have limited writing ability, as in each sector can only be written to x amount of times before it is marked unusable? I can't see these being used in a device that isn't replaced as often as an mp3 player.
Wow, thats amazing piece of news. I hope, this will be used in Flash /CF/SD memory soon. That would be cool to have 32GB in my PDA;)
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That would be awesome. The only drawback would be the price when it first comes out since we have not seen anywhere near this amount of storage in any other devices.
Doesn't Flash memory have limited writing ability, as in each sector can only be written to x amount of times before it is marked unusable? I can't see these being used in a device that isn't replaced as often as an mp3 player.
Typical Flash has a write/rewrite ability in the 100k - 1M writes before the gates start to break down and lose their ability to retain their value. Reads don't cost you in terms of breakdown.
Companies also add in a wear-leveling routine which ensures you don't write to the same spots in flash (since there is no penalty for access nomatter where you read from unlike a normal HD) and the likely hood of wearing out the flash is a non-issue. The numbers which have been run show you could heavily use flash all-day, every-day for 10+ years without experiencing a problem.
I think Samsung will also leverage those into thier UMPC. In fact, even though this is pure speculation on my part, I would bet this discovery came out of the R&D for the UMPC to increase the battery life of those devices and we (PDA users) will also reap some of the benefit :).
A great day for all PDA users indeed regardless of how Samsung came up with it.
Of course, this doesn't mean any Pocket PC maker will actually use the technology since I'm sure they keep reading the same articles we do that the PDA market is "dead."
Long live the Pocket PC!
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This is really good news . . . the reality of a fully functional - as in Windows/Linux OS that is not scaled down - could be in the future for pocket pcs. One can only imagine. :)
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