Date: 19/06/2012

Solid-state drives from Samsung supplied to professional gamers

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd has announced that it has agreed to provide its solid-state drives (SSDs) to KHAN, Samsung Electronics' professional e-sports gaming team, a StarCraft league competitor. Samsung is to provide its latest 256 Gigabyte (GB) SSDs to every player on KHAN in helping them to enjoy a state-of-the-art PC gaming environment.

"We are pleased that the highly competitive professional e-sports players of KHAN will be using Samsung SSDs to enhance their gaming readiness, while helping us to make consumers more aware of advanced PC environments that feature the high performance and reliability of Samsung SSDs," said UnSoo Kim, vice president, memory strategic marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics. "We expect that the SSD market will continue to record a high growth rate in the coming years as more SSDs are used in ultra-slim mobile PCs with a sharp increase in the volume of premium notebook PCs sold."

Samsung claims that all KHAN players are to enjoy booting and application loading speeds three times as fast as those with conventional hard drives. Samsung SSDs are said to improve performance and reliability by preventing "freezing" or lagging of applications and assuring stable operation for a longer period compared to hard drives.

Samsung had introduced a digital advertising campaign last month, consisting of video episodes with a humorous touch. Now, Samsung is promoting the Samsung SSD user experience with professional gamers.

For more information: www.samsung.com