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Wednesday December 5, 2007
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In an email announcing its CES meeting plans, Samsung Semiconductor said that the company will at least talk about the world's first 1.3-inch hard drive at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The drive is being targeted at "mobile consumer devices".
This might not be Samsung's flagship product for CES, but the product is an interesting choice, given that Samsung is also among the world leaders in NAND flash memory -- the preferred storage medium in devices like the iPod nano. Samsung also says that its 32 Gbit NAND devices will enter mass production soon. On the solid-state-disk front, Samsung says improvements in the technology will make it twice as fast as previous models, and that the company will migrate to a combination single-layer-cell/multi-layer-cell technology in 2008 (by placing more layers in cells, the amount of storage in a given area can be increased -- simply put, that means more storage for an MP3 in the same form factor).
More Samsung CES tidbits after the jump.
More of what Samsung will be showcasing:
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December 6, 2007 10:53 AM
oau! 1.3 inch HDD, that is so small! my first hdd in '89 was just 20 mega and a big piece of hardware.
December 6, 2007 6:19 PM
1.3" drives are in the no-man's land flash and disk drive sweet spots. It's been hard for anyone to definitively declare a winner in this space. It's very interesting that Samsuung is going there, given their flash position.
1.3" is not a new idea, with smart phones as one potential killer app.
January 8, 2008 11:35 PM
And soon, a battery powered 1.3-inch hard disk drive that is hermetically sealed for true mobility.
June 14, 2008 6:22 PM
These little hard drives are amazing but imagine what we will have in a years time. SD cards pack a punch at 32 gb now and are bound to get bigger sooner rather than later. Hard drives will be next to follow suit