Samsung jumps into external SSD market

It took longer than expected, but Samsung is expanding its product line to include external solid-state
drives with a new line of Portable SSD T1 products.
The lightweight drives have capacities of up to 1TB and are small enough to fit in your pocket.
They're significantly more expensive than magnetic hard drives, though, which come in capacities of
up to 6TB.
Samsung's 250GB external SSD is priced at US$179.99, a 500GB drive is $299.99, and a 1TB drive
is $599.99. By comparison, a 1TB magnetic drive can be acquired for under $100.
External storage is mostly used for data backup. But demand for external drives is growing as users
download and store more multimedia and programs. Storage is also limited in Chromebooks and
lightweight Windows laptops and hybrids, so users have to revert to external storage to preserve
files.
But Samsung's portable SSDs will be faster and more power-efficient than external hard drives, said
Richard Leonarz, senior marketing manager.
SSDs are faster at reading and writing data than hard drives. SSDs also don't have spinning disks,
which are prevalent in hard drives and can draw a lot of power when reading and writing data.
The Portable SSD T1 drives will connect to a PC's USB 3.0 port. The SSDs have sequential read and
write speeds of 450MB per second, random read speeds of 8,000 IOPS (input/output per second)
and random write speeds of 21,000 IOPS.
Samsung already makes internal SSDs, which are widely used in laptops and have up to 3.2GB in
storage capacity. The external SSDs are based on the same advanced 3D V-NAND technology that
gives its internal SSDs speed and durability. The 3D V-NAND SSDs have storage units stacked on
top of each other, much like a skyscraper, which is a more power-efficient and speedy structure
compared to the planar structure used in most SSDs today.
Samsung is now taking on the likes of Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba, which largely sell
external hard drives and hybrid SSD-hard drive products.

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Ex 1 Complete the articlewith the words from the box :

Stora storage

multimedia

SSDs

hard drives

External 1) .............. is mostly used for data backup. But demand for external drives is growing as
users download and store more 2)................ and programs. Storage is also limited in Chromebooks
and lightweight Windows laptops and hybrids, so users have to revert to external storage to preserve
files.
But Samsung's portable 3)......... will be faster and more power-efficient than external hard drives,
said Richard Leonarz, senior marketing manager.
SSDs are faster at reading and writing data than hard drives. SSDs also don't have spinning disks,
which are prevalent in 4)................. and can draw a lot of power when reading and writing data.

Ex 2 Look at the text and find the following

1.the type of hard drive Samsung wil produce
2.what type of usb will conect to a PCs
3.what the seed of read
4.for what is most use a external storeg

Ex 3 Mach the terms with their definition

1. SSDs
a. are faster at reading and writing data than hard drives
2. External storage
b. storage is mostly used for data backup
3. 3D V-NAND
c. technology that gives its internal SSDs speed and durability

Molecular flash memory could store massive data

Novel molecules could help flash memory move beyond its storage limits, allowing for massive
amounts of data to be recorded in small spaces, according to European scientists.
Metal-oxide clusters that can retain electrical charge and act as RAM could form a new basis for data
cells used in flash memory, the researchers from the University of Glasgow's Schools of Chemistry
and Engineering and Rovira i Virgili University in Spain wrote in a letterpublished in Nature.
The group of 13 researchers said that polyoxometalate (POM) molecules can act as storage nodes
for MOS flash memory. They used tungsten to synthesize POM metal-oxide clusters and added
selenium to their inner cores, in a process known as doping, to create a new type of memory they
call "write-once-erase."
The research addresses the limits of the size of data cells in flash memory, which is widely used in
mobile devices such as smartphones, memory sticks and cameras.
The notion of using individual molecules to take the place of traditional flash memory components
isn't new, but previous research has struggled with problems such as low thermal stability and low
electrical conductivity. This has made it difficult to apply molecular models to MOS technologies.

The researchers wrote that realistic, industry-standard device simulations validated their approach at
the nanometer scale, referring to objects with dimensions measured in nanometers. They added that
POMs have the potential to be used as a realistic nanoscale flash memory.
"One major benefit of the POMs we've created is that it's possible to fabricate them with devices
which are already widely used in industry, so they can be adopted as new forms of flash memory
without requiring production lines to be expensively overhauled," Lee Cronin, a chemist involved in
the research, said in a University of Glasgow release.

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Ex 1 Complete the articlewith the words from the box :

Storage electrical
flash memory cores

Novel molecules could help flash memory move beyond its 1).............. limits, allowing for massive
amounts of data to be recorded in small spaces, according to European scientists.
Metal-oxide clusters that can retain 2).............. charge and act as RAM could form a new basis for
data cells used in 3)....................., the researchers from the University of Glasgow's Schools of
Chemistry and Engineering and Rovira i Virgili University in Spain wrote in a letterpublished in
Nature.

The group of 13 researchers said that polyoxometalate (POM) molecules can act as storage nodes
for MOS flash memory. They used tungsten to synthesize POM metal-oxide clusters and added
selenium to their inner 4)..............., in a process known as doping, to create a new type of memory
they call "write-once-erase."

Ex 2 Look at the text and find the following:

1.as what type of memory will act
2.what type of molecul could help flash memory move beyond its storage limits
3.What thei add in the iner core
Ex 3 Mach the terms with their definition
1. Metal-oxide clusters
a. can retain electrical charge and act as RAM
2. polyoxometalate
b. can act as storage nodes for MOS flash memory
3. POMs

c. have the potential to be used as a realistic nanoscale flash memory.