1.8 Inch HDDs being phased out, Samsung going towards SSDs instead

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Samsung have dropped support for 1.8" HDDs, in favour of moving towards making more SSDs. This leaves Toshiba the only company making 1.8" HDDs. This could mean a shortage of these drives for netbooks and other portable devices, although more and more of these devices are using solid state storage (hence the Samsung move).

More about this news story here:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/storage/news/2009/06/29/Samsung-Drops-1-8in-HDDs-For-SSDs/p1

I wrote a blog on SSDs a couple of weeks ago, listing the technology's advantages over HDD:

http://www.digital-digest.com/blog/DVDGuy/2009/06/05/ssds-the-next-big-thing/