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SanDisk Releases News About Solid-State Drives

By Tyler | June 4, 2008

The newest in digital electronic storage is Solid-State Drives or SSDs. Think of them like compact flash cards with a larger storage capacity with quite read/write access. In fact you can order your Apple Macbook Air with a 64Gb SSD instead of a mechanical driven IDE hard drive. Though with SanDisk offering low cost Solid-State drives for Low-Cost PCs perhaps we might even seem them in high-end digital SLRs in the future?

Imagine using your Nikon dSLR or Canon dSLR with a 64Gb SSD instead of a removable memory card? That would be insanely cool!

From the SanDisk Press Release:

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics – called Ultra Low-Cost PCs (ULCPC) or “netbooks” – that allow users to have an enhanced experience while easily surfing the Internet using wireless communication. The SanDisk® pSSD™ (Parallel ATA solid state drive) eliminates the need for a hard disk drive and can store both the operating system and application data for these new devices.

A pioneer in developing SSDs for laptop computers, tablet PCs and blade servers, SanDisk is making the new SSD modules available in 4-, 8- and 16-gigabyte (GB)1 capacities, with a streaming read speed of 39 megabytes per second (MB/s)2 and a streaming write performance of 17MB/s.2 Supporting both Linux and Microsoft® Windows® XP operating systems, SanDisk pSSD solid state drives are being shown this week at Computex Taipei, where SanDisk is exhibiting at Booth M320 in Nangang Exhibition Hall.

SanDisk’s pSSD solid state drives, which are expected to be available starting in August, are built using the company’s reliable Multi-Level Cell (MLC) and Single-Level Cell (SLC) flash memory. This technology is produced at fabrication plants in Yokkaichi, Japan, where SanDisk and its partner, Toshiba Corporation, share the output. The two companies have co-developed many of the designs and technologies in NAND flash.

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