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Flash-based disks heading for laptops

By Derek Sooman

On March 21, 2006, 1:28 PM

Laptops may soon be benefiting from solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, thanks to work from Samsung. The company has announced that it is to offer a 32GB drive to customers. Samsung believes that the market for SSD drives will boom, reaching US$4.5 billion by 2010.

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  1. March 21, 2006 3:24 PM
    DragonMaster said:
    What I'd like to know is the lifetime of these...
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  2. March 21, 2006 4:43 PM
    crossfire851 said:
    Not long, so you have to go and buy a new fm.
    Reply

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