SanDisk Preps Flash Drives For Notebooks

[Lorn]

http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3652171

Interesting. Anyone gonna jump on the band wagon when they become available?

[Homskillet]

Re: SanDisk Preps Flash Drives For Notebooks

I'll jump on it... if the price is right! A little bigger then 32 GB would be nice too.

[KinKyJ]

Re: SanDisk Preps Flash Drives For Notebooks

The SanDisk SSD can reach a sustained read rate of 62MB/sec and a random read rate 100 times faster than standard hard drives. Boot time for Windows Vista can be as short as 35 seconds. Flash drives have an estimated mean time before failure of two million hours, around six times that of a hard disk. They consume only 0.4 watts of power during use vs. 1.0 watts from a regular drive. More important, with no moving parts, there's no heat, and in a laptop, that's a major concern.

Interesting

Consumers, though, may not appreciate the $600 premium for a laptop equipped with the SanDisk SSD drive, especially since it's only 32GB in capacity, well below that of standard laptop drives.

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[Kamal]

Re: SanDisk Preps Flash Drives For Notebooks

this will be particularly useful when Vista Notebooks debut since Vista abuses the power to come on and off at the click of a button (Sleep function) thanks to flash drives

[Lorn]

Re: SanDisk Preps Flash Drives For Notebooks

Yea...steep price but that is the way of all new technology.