Samsung Electronics is mass producing solid-state drives with a 128G-byte capacity, and will begin production of a 256G-byte product later this year, the company said Wednesday.Solid-state drives, or SSDs, are storage devices that use flash memory chips to store data, instead of the magnetic platters found in hard-disk drives. Flash memory chips offer several advantages over hard disks; they use less power and, because they have no moving parts, are not prone to mechanical failure. On the other hand, flash chips are more expensive than magnetic platters, which means SSDs cost more than hard disks with a much greater storage capacity.
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It's a PC World article, so I guess no further explanation is necessary. Can hardly be taken as a credible story if they can't even use standard notations.
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