RSSSamsung: 32GB Flash Memory Coming
By Nate Mook | Published September 12, 2005, 2:45 PM
Samsung on Monday unveiled a new high density flash memory chip that paves the way for portable devices with much larger capacities. The 16-gigabit NAND chip is equivalent to 2GB of storage, and can be packaged in quantities of 16 to create a 32-gigabyte flash memory product.
The new chips are expected to be mass produced beginning in the second half of 2006. That means devices like Apple's new iPod Nano could see considerable storage bumps in the coming future. Apple did not say whether it plans to use the new flash memory, but the company has purchased a huge stake of Samsung's chips for the iPod.
You are all missing the bigger picture. I am looking forward to when video cameras use flash memory for recorded video. High quality recording, edit on the fly, and great battery life. No more tapes, DVDs, or extra batteries to buy. That is the future for high capacity flash memory.
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|Yes, finally we will see big memory. I hope we will see affordable price too.
If the price can go low, it can replace a harddisk and we will see lighter notebook and also consume less power. which mean longer battery.
and the device manufacturer need to use this big memory otherwise others will win the battle.
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|I just saw on the news today that people have an average of like 375 songs on their player so who needs all this space on an mp3 player. I think it will be more usfull for devices such as ipaqs.
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|Well, people tend to want a lot more than they will actually need or use. I mean look at SUV's and fast food meals.
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|I currently have 4094 songs on my iPod and still have about 6 gigs left. It is very useful, you can store other things besides music too. It is very good for file transfer as well.
"who needs all this space on an mp3 player", people who don't want to have to deal with cd's anymore...
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|The USA has 5% of the world's population and uses about 1/3 of its resourses as well.
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|i would love to have a 32 gig ogg player
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|The iPod Flea will be out by the end of the year - mark my words.
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|lol
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|i guess the mini would not be the only ipod that will decrease in size. Soon and ipod with 40 gibabytes and half the size :P
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|I would love to replace my 3g ipod ith a ipod nano, if it wasn't so limited in space. So when they start making the Nano's with, say 40 or 60GB I'll be the first in line to buy one.
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|i have a 60 gig and it is almost full now with over 13,000 songs on it so more space would be the s***
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|Wow.
I can smell solid-state hard-drives already.
*drools*
My only question is, how fast is read/write?
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|One would expect as fast as current flash-based technology.
I saw nothing about performance increases. Again, that's assuming that if there were any noteable performance increases they'd be beating their hands on their chests and bragging about it.
Since they say nothing about it...
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From:
http://www.mobile-review.../index.php/t-29221.html
"Samsung also claims the SSD's performance rate exceeds that of a comparably sized disk drive by more than 150 percent. The storage disk reads data at 57 MB per second and writes it at 32 MB per second." (SSD = Solid State Disk)
I don't know how reliable that information is.
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|57MB/sec read and 32MB/sec write is good enough for me. That's about what I get on my SATA drives now (that's practical speed. They're rated to be much faster...).
Anything faster is just an added bonus =D
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Edited for incorrect information =p
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|Dude...
From TFA:
"The storage disk reads data at 57 MB per second and writes it at 32 MB per second."
From Parent (WinCEMeNT):
"57Mbps read and 32Mbps write"
57MB is a hell of a lot different than 57Mb. 57Mb ~ 7MB. 32Mb ~ 4MB
That'd suck.
Careful with your b/B's, my man.
(1MB ~ 8Mb)
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|Yeh, I always go with MB/GB, and Mbit, Gbit. Lots of people still get Mbps and Gbps mixed up with MB/GB.
Current Raptors are supposed to access about 100mb/sec, right? And normal Harddrives(like mine) run at around 48mb/sec.
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|My mistake. I'm just used to making the first letter capital, and the rest lowercase Bps, Kbps, etc...
I didn't realize I was mis-stating myself.
Thanks for the correction. =p
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|Nah, no problem. I'm a nazi when it comes to that...probably due to the 256K/256k crap the DSL providers pulled around here.
Bastahds.
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|Full article/write-up here:
http://www.tomshardware....ws/20050912_000100.html
For those wanting a bit more info than a blurb without links to more info.
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|at Last more space pos on Ipod
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|I wish that this means I get to have 32 gb on my psp!!!!
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