SSD Drives
This seems to have gone somewhat under the radar (thanks Daily Tech):Dell is jumping into the solid-state disk arena today by offering 1.8" SanDisk UATA 5000 drives on its Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and Latitude D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks.
SanDisk's 1.8" SSD drive was first announced in early January and features patented TrueFFS flash management technology. Also of importance is the drive's MTBF of 2 million hours. The drive offers sustained read speeds of 62MB/sec and had an average access speed of 0.12 milliseconds.
...The SanDisk UATA 5000 is currently available as a $450 option on the D420 and a $300 option on the D620 ATG. The drive is also available direct from Dell at a price of $549.
So after seemingly a dozen companies announced these drives in the last six months, someone is finally actually selling them. Sure, they're expensive, but watch those prices plummet over the next two years.
Less heat, less power consumption, lower failure rate, and no noise. That's the future.
<< Home