Samsung's new HDD for Laptops

Samsung the world's largest computer chip maker has developed a new solid-state drive which is expected to replace hard disk drives in laptop computers.

Samsung's 256-gigabyte Solid State Drive (SSD) for data storage is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives.

Samsung described the new SSD, 2.5 inches long and 9.5 millimeters thick, as the world's smallest of its kind. It can read up to 200 megabytes of data per second.This new step indicates a bold step in notebooks with significantly improved performance and larger storage capacities.

Source : Agence France-Presse(AFP)