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Samsung has announced that they plan on making a 64GB solid-state hard drive.  The drive will be 1.8″ by 1.8″ and be one of the first larger solid state drive (SSD) put into mass production.  What does this all mean?

Geek talk aside, SSD is great for the average consumer.  In a normal hard drive platters, which hold your data, are spinning around and around all the time when the computer is turned on.  All of this motion is powered by your battery.   This makes battery life…short.  With solid state technology there are no moving parts so the battery life is much longer.  In Samsung’s case the new drive will increase battery life by 20%.

I’m sure the first line of these drives will be terribly expensive, but over time they will start showing up in laptops and cell phones with a price everyone can afford.

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