With the introduction of 32GB NAND SSD, Samsung has ignited a revolution in the data storage market.

Monday, March 27, 2006: New Delhi: Yesterday, I was reading A. C. Clarke’s `3001: The Final Odyssey’, where he writes about the futuristic storage devices in which a man’s whole life can be stored in a simple disk using some electron-optical technology.

However, while one of the most reputed authors of all times believed that by 3001 disks will cross all limits of data storage, Samsung has started realising the possibility. Samsung has announced the 32GB NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD), changing the way we used to look at storage. So, the question is: Has the time come for the rotating, noicy and power consuming hard drives to pack their bags?

The fate of hard drive depends on future developments, but it is certain that Samsung has opened a window (and a pretty big one) for the entry of the NAND flash memory into the notebook and mobile PC market.

The 32GB Flash-SSD is free from any motor or mechanical parts and weighs about half as much as a comparably-sized hard drive. The data reading capacity of the drive is three times that of ‘traditional’ hard drives and it writes 1.5 times faster than conventional hard drives.

The best thing about SSD is silence. You need not put up with that ‘grrrrrrr’ — no matter how slow it might be, it just irritates — of those hard drives. The SSD is noiseless and uses just five per cent of the electricity needed to power a hard disc drive.

All this makes working faster as these SSDs make the uploading and downloading of data quicker and quieter with minimal power consumption.

So, are you bidding goodbye to your noicy hard drive?

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