Microsoft Signs Off On Two All-Solid-State Drives

Microsoft has officially qualified two of Samsung Electronics' flash-based solid-state-disk (SSD) drives as fully Windows compatible. The 16- and 32-Gbyte drives come in a 1.8-in. profile and offer 57-Mbyte/s read speeds and 32-Mbyte/s write
Nov. 6, 2006

Microsoft has officially qualified two of Samsung Electronics' flash-based solid-state-disk (SSD) drives as fully Windows compatible. The 16- and 32-Gbyte drives come in a 1.8-in. profile and offer 57-Mbyte/s read speeds and 32-Mbyte/s write times. The drives' target market is laptop users who want near instant boot and standby recovery with increased battery life.

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