Comments on: Samsung’s Biggest Competitor Is Samsung http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/01/samsungs-biggest-competitor-is-samsung/ Data storage info & analysis Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:55:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Robin Harris http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/01/samsungs-biggest-competitor-is-samsung/#comment-19545 Robin Harris Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:35:23 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=363#comment-19545 Miro, I agree that 4200 RPM is fine for media players. It is just slow for computers. Which is why I'm excited about flash-based SSDs that are big enough to replace hard drives in notebooks. Their performance is great and I believe their useful life will exceed that of most portable computers, besides the fact that they will increase battery life and reduce weight. Almost any big company in IT has had anti-trust problems. I suspect that after the fine and the negative publicity that Samsung will be purer than most, at least for a while. Add the fact that SSDs are a substitute for disks with a price disadvantage and I don't think we need to worry that they will be artificially propping up their prices. They have every incentive to get them down as fast as they can. Robin Miro,

I agree that 4200 RPM is fine for media players. It is just slow for computers. Which is why I’m excited about flash-based SSDs that are big enough to replace hard drives in notebooks. Their performance is great and I believe their useful life will exceed that of most portable computers, besides the fact that they will increase battery life and reduce weight.

Almost any big company in IT has had anti-trust problems. I suspect that after the fine and the negative publicity that Samsung will be purer than most, at least for a while. Add the fact that SSDs are a substitute for disks with a price disadvantage and I don’t think we need to worry that they will be artificially propping up their prices. They have every incentive to get them down as fast as they can.

Robin

]]> By: Miro http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/01/samsungs-biggest-competitor-is-samsung/#comment-19389 Miro Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:34:16 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/?p=363#comment-19389 Slowing down the rotation speed of the HDDs can make them more shock resistant and increase the life, if I am not wrong. This can give HDDs a bit more air in the mp3 players market, where flash already dominates. I am a bit afraid of Samsung when it comes to competition. They pleaded guilty recently in memory price fixing, and some execs when to jail. http://news.com.com/Samsung+exec+pleads+guilty+in+memory+probe/2100-1047_3-6145633.html So although some internal competition is healthy it can easy become dead trap for the SSDs. Slowing down the rotation speed of the HDDs can make them more shock resistant and increase the life, if I am not wrong. This can give HDDs a bit more air in the mp3 players market, where flash already dominates.

I am a bit afraid of Samsung when it comes to competition. They pleaded guilty recently in memory price fixing, and some execs when to jail.
http://news.com.com/Samsung+exec+pleads+guilty+in+memory+probe/2100-1047_3-6145633.html

So although some internal competition is healthy it can easy become dead trap for the SSDs.

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