Samsung ships low-cost 128GB SSDs

I wonder if people actually read these articles before voting them up. There is absolutely nothing informative here. A more appropriate headline could have been "Drive manufacturer, Samsung, still making drives". That has about as much substance as this article. In any case, it certainly would have been more correct since announcing that manufacturing has started is not the same as shipping.

There are no quotes or even a hint at how the drives will be priced to support the "low cost" claim. The closest thing is the mention that Samsung has "started mass production of 128GB solid-state drives based on multi-level cell (MLC) technology that should dramatically reduce the cost of switching to flash storage in notebooks". It doesn't get any more vague than that. Besides, "low cost" is a relative term. A 128GB SSD on New Egg is $3k. If Samsung managed to produce new drives at a third of that cost I guess you could say the drives are "low cost" in comparison, but it's certainly not low cost when you're considering putting one in a $2k laptop.

This is just bad journalism.

SMART exists; the SSD makers just need to use it.

I'd pay extra for a smaller drive that used less power and ran cooler. The article also said it ran faster than spinning disk hard drives.

At least it got the Samsung and 128GB SSD part right.

At least they named the right company.