In a recent statement, Dell announced that it will include 1.8-inch 32GB1 solid state drive (SSD) from SanDisk on Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG.
April 27, 2007 (Press Release) --
It’s seems it’s time to say good bye to your old hard drive, because a new era in storage is set to begin. And the name of the game is SSD or Solid State Disk. In a recent statement, Dell announced that it will include 1.8-inch 32GB1 solid state drive (SSD) from SanDisk on Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG.
The Texas-based company is amongst the early adopters of this new technology. 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.
"A solid state drive is an excellent storage technology for our mobile users," said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer at Dell. "We are committed to leading the industry in delivering these new drives and will offer them across Dell’s next generation of Latitude products."
A SSD is a hard drive alternative based on flash memory. Unlike a traditional HDD which uses spinning discs and read/write heads, a SSD is designed with flash memory with no moving parts. The new drive has the same shape and size as a HDD and uses the same connectors for integration into existing systems.
Engineering tests show that the SSD has an operating shock tolerance of up to 1,300 Gs, which is twice the rating of mechanical drives. In fact, during extreme impact testing the surrounding notebook hardware breaks before the drive2. In addition, the drives are predicted to reduce the probability of failure by three-and-one-half times compared to standard mechanical drives3.
"This represents an important milestone in the evolution of personal computers with the arrival of solid state flash memory as a durable, efficient alternative to the hard drive," said Eli Harari, SanDisk’s founder and CEO."For those enterprise road warriors who rely on their notebook PCs, hard drive crashes with attendant loss of critical data will soon be a thing of the past. We’re delighted that Dell has chosen the SanDisk SSD to launch this technology into their line of mobile PCs."
The SSD drives are available today at a list price of $549 in the Americas. Dell said they will be available soon in Europe and Asia.
Author: Mihai Alexandru
Source: http://www.playfuls.com/
The Texas-based company is amongst the early adopters of this new technology. 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.
"A solid state drive is an excellent storage technology for our mobile users," said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer at Dell. "We are committed to leading the industry in delivering these new drives and will offer them across Dell’s next generation of Latitude products."
A SSD is a hard drive alternative based on flash memory. Unlike a traditional HDD which uses spinning discs and read/write heads, a SSD is designed with flash memory with no moving parts. The new drive has the same shape and size as a HDD and uses the same connectors for integration into existing systems.
Engineering tests show that the SSD has an operating shock tolerance of up to 1,300 Gs, which is twice the rating of mechanical drives. In fact, during extreme impact testing the surrounding notebook hardware breaks before the drive2. In addition, the drives are predicted to reduce the probability of failure by three-and-one-half times compared to standard mechanical drives3.
"This represents an important milestone in the evolution of personal computers with the arrival of solid state flash memory as a durable, efficient alternative to the hard drive," said Eli Harari, SanDisk’s founder and CEO."For those enterprise road warriors who rely on their notebook PCs, hard drive crashes with attendant loss of critical data will soon be a thing of the past. We’re delighted that Dell has chosen the SanDisk SSD to launch this technology into their line of mobile PCs."
The SSD drives are available today at a list price of $549 in the Americas. Dell said they will be available soon in Europe and Asia.
Author: Mihai Alexandru
Source: http://www.playfuls.com/
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