Tomshardware reports that Samsung has developed a new Flash-based harddrive:
San Jose (CA) – Samsung announced that it has developed the first solid state disk (SSD) based on NAND Flash memory technology. 1.8-inch 16 GByte SSD drives will ship in August of this year.
Using Flash for harddrives is an idea that has been around for a while. But taking advantage of low power consumption as well as fast data transfer rates usually comes at a high price. For example, M-Systems offers such harddrives with up to 176 GByte capacity and SCSI interfaces, but charges prices that reach deep into the five-figure Dollar range.
Samsung made waves in April with the announcement of a hybrid harddrive that uses the firm’s NAND Flash to reduce power consumption and accelerate especially startup times of computers. The company takes this step one step further with an announcement to offer 1.8-inch harddrives for notebooks and Tablet PCs that are completely based on Flash and do not use any moving parts.
Don’t expect it to be cheap though, with prices starting at $500-$600 for the 8 GB unit. Once flash memory becomes cheaper this will be perfect technology for laptops and small form computers (read: Soekris). While I’ll probably pass on this HD I can’t wait to get my hands on this technology in the future 
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