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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
SanDisk has introduced a 32GB 1.8-inch solid state drive
(SSD) that promises to improve performance of mobile devices by replacing
standard magnetic disk drives.
The new SanDisk SSD is designed as a "drop-in replacement"
for a standard drive and is aimed at enterprise users rather than the usual customers
for SSD (which SanDisk describes as military, aerospace and telecom industries).
SanDisk sees the new drive as "the first step toward mass consumer
adoption" made possible by the falling cost of Flash memory.
All the same, the SanDisk 32GB SSD will likely increase
the end-user price of a notebook PC by around US$600 in the first half of
2007.
"This is an important milestone for SanDisk in our
relentless quest to create new large-scale markets for flash storage solutions
for consumers in the personal computing space," said Eli Harari, SanDisk CEO.
"The 32-gigabyte SSD that we are announcing today represents
the fifth generation of flash-based solid state drives developed by msystems,
which we recently acquired.
"The 32GB SSD has been made commercially viable through
SanDisk's technology leadership coupled with msystems' tremendous experience
and IP, which are captured in the high-performance, low-cost system controllers
that distinguish this product.
The advantages of Flash drives are significant and include speed
(the drive can boot Vista Enterprise in as little as 35 seconds) and lower
power consumption than a regular dive (0.4 watt during active operation versus
1.0 watt).
SanDisk announced in late July last year that it would acquire
msystems in an all stock transaction that concluded in November.
Established in 1989, msystems specialised in creating embedded
flash drive technology.
www.sandisk.com/ssd
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