At last, the solid state huge storage is in

In the 1994, I scratched a design of a slate computer (was in the united states at that time) that was A4 size and with no mechanical parts whatsoever (hard disk in particular). My professor at that time claimed that I was out of my mind because no could believe at that time the the EEPROM will turn into a huge fast storage that would compete with the hard disk. I was hoping that reference CDs like the Encarta would be burned on a credit card sized media.

Now, Samsung's notebooks with solid state drive is in (June 2006 in Korea). NAND-based Q30-SSD price is 3,700 US dollars, but that 32 GB of NAND reads 300% and writes 150% fatser than a normal hard drive(this means 53 MB/s and 28 MB/s respectively) while offering better protection against shock, 25-50% faster boots and sleep recovery times, longer battery life and reduced weight all in a completely silent, fanless package. This means an even smaller and thinner computers that one can hardly attached a keyboard to.

Wait only few years to see this 32 GB quadruple and the speed double

More on memory from Samsung, click http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/Memory/index.htm