Imagine if your PC had no hard disc drive. Instead, the hard drive would be a large flash memory chip.

I was recently amazed by Micro SD chips but this takes it to a new level. Samsung Electronics will begin shipping 64GB SSD (solid state drive) hard drives.

There’s no motor, no head and actuator, no disc. It’s 64GB of solid state memory.

The 2.5-inch SSD chips will be first sold in Dell premium notebooks later this year.

In the Korean online paper Digital Chosunilbo, the article said:

Samsung said the new drives will be supplied to other major PC makers as well. Demand for Flash chips is expected to surge once Dell starts mass-producing notebooks with Samsung’s SSDs. Market researcher iSuppli predicts that with a rapid growth of the SSD market, PCs will account for 20 percent of applications of flash chips by 2011.

Having a distribution deal with major PC manufacturers and not just being an aftermarket part could really mean the proliferation of SSD hard drives. This is some pretty cool, revolutionary stuff.

Samsung Starts Shipping Flash Hard Drives for PCs