SanDisk SSD for SATA

SanDisk this morning unveiled the SSD SATA 5000, its first solid-state drive for notebooks to use the faster Serial ATA standard. The 32GB drive uses its flash memory to transfer data far more quickly than a hard disk can in practice. Reading data can be sustained at 67MB per second; seek times are even quicker, taking only 0.11 milliseconds to reach data that would take 17 milliseconds to find on a hard disk. The performance means that even Windows Vista Enterprise will boot in 30 seconds, according to the company's tests.

Conceived as a drop-in replacement for other notebook drives, the SATA 5000 fits into a standard 2.5-inch space without any changes but consumes less than half the power. Pricing is set comparatively low for flash drives: the current 32GB version is available to system builders now for $350.

By Electronista Staff