Not satisfied with a paltry 32 or 64 GB of storage? The South Korean memory giant has announced the development of a new 1.8-inch solid state disk with up to 128 GB, which could replace 1.8-inch ordinary hard-drive in laptops. The ZIF-type SSD for laptops uses Single Level Cell (SLC) technology and supports PATA (ZIF-type) interface. It provides a maximum reading speed of 120MB/s and writing speed of 100MB/s - that is 6 times faster than the current 1.8 inch HDD. As solid state technology matures, expect to see more SSD Laptops in the 2008.

Price issues aside, this sounds like a great component for UMPCs and sub-notebooks. Factor in 50% less power used than a traditional hard drive for a little more run time.

Pretec (Taiwan company) did it again with the 48GB CompactFlash that surprised everyone.

Spec:

Comes in 16GB, 24GB and 48GB of storage capacity. This CompactFlash with an ultra fast 233x-333x speed of Read/Write up to 50Mb/40MB per second. The largest storage of 48GB is rated at lower speed of 233x but still capable to produce read speed of 35mb/s.

Solid State Drives are well known for their petite size and low power consumption, you might have heard about it many times already. But this Intel Z-P140 PATA is worth noting. Intel managed to cram 4GB on a surface that is equivalent to a penny, this is pretty impressive, although not surprising given current advances in semi-conductor manufacturing. Today, many music players use 1.8” drives that have a much larger capacity (60GB), but the Z-P140 has very interesting qualities:

• 400x smaller for 15x less capacity
• 75 times lighter
• More shock resistant

Quick specs:

• Parallel ATA interface (PATA)
• 2GB and 4GB capacity
• 40Mbytes/sec (read), 30Mbytes/sec (write)
• 300mW (1.1mW in sleep mode)

A number of Asus Eee ultra-portable computers have shipped with a devil “Warranty Void If Removed” on the memory access door. This label might have rebuked users who otherwise wanted to upgrade their Eee with more memory (normally 512MB or 1GB for the 4G models ~ $349.99. Up to 2GB with hack).

It says: “Asus wishes to assure its customers that merely breaking or removing this kind of seal will not void the Asus Limited Warranty” (full press release, Asus Eee page).

With Asus announced 3.8 million Eee PCs next year, I think many of us would want to buy one next year because it’s cheaper than some PDAs / iPod Touch.