Samsung Targets SSD for Gamers
Samsung is targeting PC gamers with its ultra-cool 256 GB SSD.
Samsung revealed today that it is kicking off a new campaign by targeting the PC gaming industry with its high-performance 256 GB solid state drives (SSD). The company hopes to capture gamers with the "lightning-fast processing power" offered by it SSDs, providing superior performance over traditional hard disk drives, and longer battery power for the notebook gamer.
The 256 GB drives--now available for desktops and notebooks--went into mass production back in November 2008, boasting sequential read rates of 220 MB/sec., sequential write rates of 200 MB/sec., and erase cycles of 100 GB per minute. The SSDs also consume 1.1 watts of power.
"In addition to processing power, advanced graphic cards and high-resolution monitors, gamers want a fast storage drive for reduced loading times and faster game performance," said Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. "Our 256 GB SSD provides much better overall performance than conventional HDDs, as well as longer battery life for the notebook gamer. Clearly, all PC gamers will benefit from the blistering speeds and dazzling photorealism enabled by the Samsung 256GB SSD."
In addition to its new focus, Samsung pointed to two videos posted over on YouTube showing the benefits of SSDs in a gaming environment: "Are SSDs Good for Gaming?" and "Samsung SSD Awesomeness." Samsung also plans to demonstrate its 256 SSDs in action at the World Cyber Games event taking place September 25 - 27.

I'm still trying to notice a difference between my raid 0 1.28TB WD Caviar Black and 30GB OCZ Vertex in everyday computing/gaming. I think I'll wait a couple of years to invest in another SSD...
"SSD for gamers" is synonymous to "AMD dragon platform". It's just another marketing strategy to target uninformed consumers. I'll pass, thanks.
kami3k i'm not sure if you're putting down his writing or the content of his writing, but either way you are one ignorant person! How many languages can you communicate in? Yeah....that's what i thought.... stfu!
huh?
But it'd still load around 3x faster than any console today.
Buying a new lappy, and I would love to have this in there. To bad I'm already over budget with it...
Many of us like it like that.
The thought that there is always something new and better to look forward to.
Really Samsung? Forget upgrading my Radeon X800 Pro and 17" CRT...I'm getting an SSD!!!!
Totally agree with this, I have posted in other SSD stories and been beaten down by the SSD zealots. I think the idea of an SSD is great, but when I have a basic installation of my programs of around 110Gb, then have to add games on top, that's pushing a serious amount of storage.
"Why dont you install games and your Virtual XP image on another HDD?"
Duh, doesn't the Virtual XP need to run faster too? Don't games need to load faster? Of course they do, having a piddly 30Gb or 60Gb SSD isn't going to cut it. The reason why this story is targeting gamers is not because it is just an SSD, but that they know gamers have huge installations and 256Gb is going to be just about sufficient for the high capacity demands of games.
yep, and graphics and specs stayed the same for 10 years... Have fun with your year2000 draphics, I'll go play Crysis on my 700$ PC now, a game even the PS3 can run decently btw
When the next generation of consoles come out they will have SSD's as well so try not to diss the tech too much.