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Being the world’s largest producer of DDR3 RAM and SSDs, this can easily be termed as an indirect marketing pitch but if rising data center costs are a concern for your company, you may want to pay heed to this. Samsung reckons use of DDR3 RAM and SSD the ‘Dynamic Duo’ is instrumental to reduce [...]

 
Samsung has announced a 256GB SSD that will be pitched for use in gaming machines. Since gamers tend to have faster processors, better graphics cards and other advanced hardware, Samsung believes SSDs are important too that can reduce game loading times as compared to conventional HDDs and elongate battery life for notebook gamers.
To prove [...]

 
Samsung is now sampling a new breed of SSDs that could help bolster the adoption of SSDs in netbooks. The new SSDs feature a mini-PCI Express (PCIe) form factor supporting SATA 3.0GB/s interface and easily fits into the small chassis of netbooks making it work as a primary storage. It also works as a complementary [...]

 
Samsung has pulled off another industry first by bringing full disk encryption (FDE) to SSDs. The FDE solution is developed by Wave Systems and is offered on both 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs with storage sizes up to 256GB.
FDE enabled SSDs automatically encrypt any information that is written onto the drive without compromising on speed [...]

 
In a telephonic interview with CNET, Brian Beard, flash marketing manager for Samsung Semiconductor claimed that few years down the line, there will be a price parity between HDDs and SSDs. His reasoning behind this statement is that the flash memory prices have been coming down in the last five years and the trend indicates [...]

 
Samsung’s marketing gigs for SSD are not new. Now they have come again to show what it feels when you’ve 24 256GB SSDs connected in RAID to give that supercomputer performance on a desktop machine.
The SSDs give a whopping 6TB of storage, 2GB throughput speed, 0.5 seconds to open the whole Office Suite and [...]

 
Samsung has taken a direct shot to topple the conventional 15K RPM HDDs used in the servers. They announced a 2.5-inch 100GB SS805 SSD that can be used in servers for video on demand, streaming media content delivery, internet data centers, virtualization and on-line transaction processing.
These drives are ridiculously fast when compared to HDDs. [...]

 
Samsung has announced about the development of world’s fastest 2.5-inch SSD. The new disk runs on SATA II interface, has a mammoth 256GB of space and is just 9.5mm thick. This SSD has a writing speed of 160MB/s and a reading speed of 200MB/s.
Samsung says that this disk has been developed on Multi Level [...]