A short while ago Samsung announced that they had built a solid-state hard drive based only on flash memory. The drive has 32GB of storage space, which by today's standards isn't much, but it's completely silent, it has no moving parts, it's not as likely to crash, and it consumes less power and produces less heat. Not a bad deal, especially if you're just using it as a system drive. Loading times for your operating system and software would be faster, and your computer would run a lot quieter.
Now Samsung is the first to put together a computer based on a flash hard drive too. The Q30SSD is the first computer (a laptop, in this case) to use a solid-state drive, and it's already available in South Korea. It's definitely not cheap; the laptop currently sells for about $3,700, but there's always a price to pay to get the newest in technology.
Hopefully the prices drop a little by the time these laptops and others reach all of us not living in Korea.
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