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Title: Samsung Flash HDD test
Description: If performances of "affordable" flash hard drives are not as high as we wish they would be, the arrival of several manufacturers on the market including Samsung is rather promising considering that transfer rates announced are interesting (57 MB /s reading and 32 MB /s writing). After the demonstration of this hard drive at the last CeBIT, our colleagues from Tom’s Hardware received one and tested it. In practice, access time is 0.2ms; it only weights 49g and needs 0.05 watts in stand by and 0.9 watts in use.


Transfer rates are relatively close to the specifications announced by Samsung: 49.6 MB /s reading and 29 MB /s sequential reading. The drive also obtains 18.1 MB /s for the PCMark05 Windows XP Startup test. This figure has to be compared to the 7.3 MB /s of the fastest current 2"1/2 drives (Momentus 7200.1 and Hitachi5K160). With IOmeter File Server and a single access, performances are two times higher. The gap however reduces with the number of concurrent access increase. The reorganisation command bear fruit for classic hard drives.

These results are encouraging even if we have to keep in mind the main downside of flash hard drives: the limited number of writing in a same area. The other problem, the price, is not really important for now as Samsung hasn't given a price for this 32 GB version.
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