Wow, I would say that being able to store 16 GB onto flash storage is nothing to sneeze at! Then again, Samsung has been doing some great things lately. I wonder if there will be much demand for this kind of storage in a flash format?

Samsung says it has developed a way to store up to 16GB of data using Flash memory, a development that could lead to extended battery life for notebook and tablet PCs. Flash memory has a power consumption that is five percent of today’s hard disk drive, according to the company.

These solid-state disk (SSD) Flash-based drives will also provide faster access to data, at about two-and-a-half times the speed of current notebook hard drives. In tests, Samsung was able to read data at 57 megabytes per second (MBps) and write at 32MBps. [Read the rest]