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Disruptive technology : Samsung 250gb laptop SSD

5 points by marketer 18y ago

mullr 18y ago
How is this disruptive? Is it significantly cheaper than expected? The capacity is larger than before, but it feels like an incremental improvement to me.
- gojomo 18y ago
  Yes, this Yahoo/AFP blurb story is weak. But we can look at some of the other coverage... http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/25/samsung.256gb.ssd/ http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/25/samsung.256gb.... http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8904 http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8904 ..and see that: (1) It's double the size of the previous largest Samsung offering, and will be the largest SSD available. (2) It's faster than previous offerings. (3) It's the thinnest such drive with a SATA II interface. (4) It uses a cheaper manufacturing process, though the impact on final cost isn't yet announced. So incremental, yes, but a fairly large increment. More interesting than any single company announcement, though, is how this reinforces an industrywide trend of SSD improvement and adoption. A lot more laptops will have SSD drives... but also many servers, as a performance boost, and because SSDs have different random-access characteristics than spinning drives it will affect the optimal architecture of server-based apps.
  - pmjordan 18y ago
    The latest Samsung SSD on the market now (128GB) was reviewed by c't magazine recently and it already beats 2.5" HDDs by a decent margin, coming close to 3.5" HDD SATA transfer rates and trouncing even SAS HDDs for seek times. Of course, it costs about a gazillion times more...
  - wmf 18y ago
    Samsung may have a lead since they make their own flash chips, but I expect other vendors to be only a month or two behind them.
- mrtron 18y ago
  I think it is disruptive in the sense that the cost/utility for SSD are soon going to cross with regular hard drives. Something like 90% of disk drive manufacturers failed the transition from floppy disks to the 3.5", and it feels incremental too.
hollerith 18y ago
The story is probably copied directly from a press release.
alex_c 18y ago
Samsung said its 256-gigabyte solid state drive (SSD) for data storage is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives. To me this just emphasizes how advanced traditional HDDs are. I would've expected a bigger increase in speed. Then again, I'm not sure how significant a single number is (random access, small files, large files, seek time...)

5 points by marketer 18y ago

mullr 18y ago

How is this disruptive? Is it significantly cheaper than expected? The capacity is larger than before, but it feels like an incremental improvement to me.

gojomo 18y ago
Yes, this Yahoo/AFP blurb story is weak. But we can look at some of the other coverage... http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/25/samsung.256gb.ssd/ http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/25/samsung.256gb.... http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8904 http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8904 ..and see that: (1) It's double the size of the previous largest Samsung offering, and will be the largest SSD available. (2) It's faster than previous offerings. (3) It's the thinnest such drive with a SATA II interface. (4) It uses a cheaper manufacturing process, though the impact on final cost isn't yet announced. So incremental, yes, but a fairly large increment. More interesting than any single company announcement, though, is how this reinforces an industrywide trend of SSD improvement and adoption. A lot more laptops will have SSD drives... but also many servers, as a performance boost, and because SSDs have different random-access characteristics than spinning drives it will affect the optimal architecture of server-based apps.
- pmjordan 18y ago
  The latest Samsung SSD on the market now (128GB) was reviewed by c't magazine recently and it already beats 2.5" HDDs by a decent margin, coming close to 3.5" HDD SATA transfer rates and trouncing even SAS HDDs for seek times. Of course, it costs about a gazillion times more...
- wmf 18y ago
  Samsung may have a lead since they make their own flash chips, but I expect other vendors to be only a month or two behind them.
mrtron 18y ago
I think it is disruptive in the sense that the cost/utility for SSD are soon going to cross with regular hard drives. Something like 90% of disk drive manufacturers failed the transition from floppy disks to the 3.5", and it feels incremental too.

hollerith 18y ago

The story is probably copied directly from a press release.

alex_c 18y ago

Samsung said its 256-gigabyte solid state drive (SSD) for data storage is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives. To me this just emphasizes how advanced traditional HDDs are. I would've expected a bigger increase in speed. Then again, I'm not sure how significant a single number is (random access, small files, large files, seek time...)