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Samsung Electronics plans to launch a flash solid-state disk (SSD) driver this year that has a 256GB capacity with higher speed of SATAII interface.

the Flash SSD(Nand Flash-based Solid State Drive) of SAMSUNG Electronics is fully consist of semiconductor device and using NAND Flash Memory which has a high reliability and a high technology for a storage media. As the Flash SSD doesn’t have a moving parts such as platter(Disk) and head media, it gives a good solution in a sub. note PC and Tablet PC for a storage device with a high performance, low power consumption and a small form factor. Also it gives rugged features in industrial PC with an extreme environment and an increased MTBF.
For an easy adoption, the Flash SSD has a same host interface with HDD and has a same physical dimension.

• No Mechanical Moving Parts
• One Chip controller suitable for Low Power

Comparison between Flash SSD with conventional HDD