Archive for the 'Solid State Drives' Category

Alienware has added solid state drive (SSD) options to its notebook PCs. The offered SSD choices include 32GB units, as well as 64GB RAID 0 option with two 32GB drives.

These Flash memory-based Serial ATA drives are available on the 17-inch Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 laptops, as well as on the 15.4-inch Area-51 m5550.

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Transcend Information, Inc. announced today its latest Flash memory-based 32GB solid state drive compatible with ExpressCard/34 slot, which is commonly used in newer notebook computers.

“Transcend’s ExpressCard/34 SSD is a smaller and faster plug-in module solution that supports USB 2.0 and PCI Express Applications, and perfectly matches mobile and desktop systems. The ExpressCard/34 SSD is compatible with Windows Vista and supports ReadyBoost function. Moreover, Transcend’s ExpressCard/34 SSD comes bundled with a portable USB adapter, which makes it work as a regular USB flash drive,” the company’s press release says.

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SanDisk Corporation has announced at Computex 2007 show in Taipei its 64-gigabyte 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSDs), which can be used as a replacement for notebooks’ standard hard drives.

“Laptop manufacturers have requested more memory capacity for systems that use the Microsoft Vista platform, which can require a number of preloaded accessories and security suites,” said Doreet Oren, SanDisk director of SSD product marketing. “Also, there is interest in developing laptops for gaming, and the SSD is well-suited for the performance and memory requirements of those users. Thus, by offering greater capacities on our SSD products, we are making our products more appealing to a wider customer base.”

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Power Quotient International (PQI) has announced the 2.5-inch 256GB SSD Turbo+ solid state drive, which is the product with the largest storage capacity in this class.

The PQI 256GB SSD Turbo+ has Serial ATA interface and data transfer rates of up to 60MB/sec. It can be a replacement for a standard notebook hard drive, offering shock resistance, high stability and low power consumption. The SSDs also have longer average data storage time of 10 years and faster seek times compared to traditional hard drive read / write heads, according to PQI.

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Dell today announced that it is offering a 1.8-inch 32GB solid state drive (SSD) from SanDisk on Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks.

“Dell sees potential for flash-based drives and is committing to offer them across next generation Latitude notebooks because they enable better reliability, increased performance and noise reduction”, according to press release.

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Transcend has announced this week its flash memory-based 2.5-inch IDE Solid State Drive (SSD) line-up, featuring models with 32GB, 16GB and 8GB capacities.

Transcend’s 2.5-inch solid state drives with IDE interface have a metal case and anti-shock features for improved reliability. In addition, these SSDs have built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) functionality that “ensures highly reliable data transfer and increases your systems energy efficiency”. The new drives, which are designed to replace standard 2.5-inch hard disks in notebook computers, are also claimed to have low power consumption.

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The flash memory maker Transcend today announced its ExpressCard/34 SSD series. This flash memory-based solid-state disk, which fits in notebook’s ExpressCard/34 slot, comes with 2GB, 4GB, 8GB or 16GB storage capacities.

According to Transcend, the ExpressCard/34 SSD provides low power consumption, “which makes it perfect for use as a mobile storage solution in notebook computers with ExpressCard slot”. Transcend’s new flash memory device supports ReadyBoost function in Windows Vista operating system and comes bundled with a portable USB adapter, which makes it work as a regular USB flash drive.

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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed a 1.8-inch 64GB flash memory-based solid state drive (SSD) at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei. The new flash-SSD is based on an eight gigabit single-level-cell (SLC) NAND, which provides significantly higher performance over conventional SSDs, according to company.

“The read and write performance of the new SLC flash-SSD have been increased by 20 percent and 60 percent respectively over the 32GB flash-SSD Samsung introduced last year, meaning that the new SSD’s ability to outperform conventional rotating-media hard drives is even greater than had been anticipated,” the press release says.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems today announced that its LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210 ultra-portable pen-enabled notebooks will offer an option for a solid-state drive (SSD), the NAND flash-based replacement for traditional hard disk drives.

“The 2.2-pound LifeBook P1610 convertible touch screen notebook and 3.2-pound LifeBook B6210 touch screen notebook are now offered with two flash-based SSD configurations, 16 GB or 32 GB. SSDs offer lower power consumption, added ruggedness, high reliability, and improved performance,” Fujitsu says.

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SanDisk Corporation today released SSD SATA 5000 2.5-Inch, its new flash memory-based solid state drive with 32GB of data storage capacity, as a drop-in replacement for traditional laptop hard disk drives.

Along with 2.5-inch form factor and a Serial ATA interface, the new SanDisk SSD offers “six times” greater reliability than standard HDDs, as well as faster system boot times, better power efficiency and cool and quiet operation, since this drive has no moving parts found in hard drives.

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Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drive (SSD) market with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, which will be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs.

Intel’s Z-U130 Value SSD is based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces and comes with 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB of storage capacity. It provides read speeds of 28MB per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second.

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Laptop Magazine has reviewed Samsung’s Q1P SSD ultra-mobile PC (UMPC), which features flash memory based solid-state drive instead of a standard mechanical hard disc. Although the SSDs are claimed to use less power than HDDs, the Magazine found that one of the main Samsung Q1P SSD’s disadvantages is the battery life of “little more than two hours”. On the other side, the review says the Q1P SSD UMPC enables full Windows XP/Tablet functionality in a light and highly portable package and very fast application loading thanks to flash based drive.

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Samsung announced, Q1P SSD, the newest Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) model, at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. The Q1P SSD is the first UMPC of its kind to use an SSD solid state flash memory-based hard drive in place of a conventional rotational media-based hard drive.

Samsung Q1P SSD provides 32GB of storage capacity with the solid state drive.

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Samsung Electronics announced that a 4GB solid state disk (SSD), now being readied for production, will also serve as a high speed NAND flash cache for laptops and desktop computers in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

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Samsung Electronics has developed a 32GB version of its SSD (solid-state disk), a flash-memory-based replacement for hard disks.

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