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Friday, February 15, 2008 8:32 AM PT Posted by Travis Hudson
Dell to Use Samsung Solid State Hard Drives in Laptops
Samsung announced that it would begin mass production of its lightning fast 64GB SATA II solid-state drives as an available option in Dell and Alienware laptops.
This announcement comes hot off the heels of the recent release of the MacBook Air, one of the few laptops that include SSD as an available factory-installed option. The 64GB SSD option on the MacBook Air tacked on a whopping $1000 to the price tag.
Anyone that has taken an entry level economics course understand that an increase in supply can potentially drive costs and therefore prices down. So go on, Samsung! Churn out the SSDs with all of your heart and might so the very attractive and elusive SSD option in laptops will become more than a $1000 fantasy.
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FYI -- Dell was actually the first notebook manufactured to offer SSD as an option on several laptop models starting in April 2007. What makes this particular drive special is that it's performance will blow away any other SSD drive offered today. In fact our labs benchmarked this drive in a Latitude notebook and saw a 35 percent overall system performance increase over a standard 2.5-inch 5400rpm notebook hard drive using SYSmark ?07. That's even more impressive when you realize that the difference between standard 5400 rpm and performance 7200rpm drives (in the same generation) is 10 percent on average. And just for fun, we did a shootout between the new SSD and a few desktop drives and, well, let's just say that the performance gap is becoming a thing of the past. Preliminary tests showed that this drive outperformed a 10,000 RPM desktop drive in overall system performance! It?s coming soon on Dell Precision mobile workstations, and Alienware and XPS laptops. http://direct2dell.