Samsung takes a page from Letterman | Internet News

Samsung takes a page from Letterman

Written By
Judy Mottl
Judy Mottl
Sep 30, 2008
1 minute read

What do you think would happen to a solid state drive if dropped from the top of a three-story building?

Well Samsung wants you to know that nothing bad happens, and proves it in what is one of the most amusing SSD public relations diddies I’ve seen to date.

The folks at the Samsung campus in San Jose took a page right out of David Letterman’s show and threw a SSD drive off a three-story building.

They then dusted it off a bit, and plugged the drive back into a generic laptop that booted up and worked without a glitch.

Check it out with this [link](http://tinyurl.com/5xf3rn) to the video.

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