Coming soon to your computer?

[lgbpop]

SanDisk has just announced the release of a 32GB flash drive. The author states:

This capacity has been chosen based upon performance and price, since the firm expects that this model will be the first to start nibbing the position of conventional magnetic hard drives.

The main benefits of the drive should be increased reliability, with over two million hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Errors), stable power draw (increasing battery life) and risk-free data protection when a notebook is accidentally dropped.

Unlike my first SSD drive, a 32GB Samsung one (which is tucked nicely in Q30Plus-SSD notebook), this Sandisk pup offers far greater performance at less that a half of the price yours truly had to shelve out.

Sandisk rightfully compares their 32GB drive with a typical notebook drive with 5400 rpm, even not touching the area of 4200rpm ones, which dominate the subnotebook space. Preliminary results show that burst rate of SSD drive is equal to sustained one, and that is 67MB/s. Classical hard drives may have the edge in burst speeds, but when it comes to sustained read or write speed, SSD should have no competition.

At the rate flash drive development has accelerated, it may not be too much longer that they'll be viable alternatives to - or replacing - magdrives in desktops as well.

[liam858]

They use one of those in Sony's new UX1, it's cool for laptops as it's SSD as it'll mean you can chuck the laptop around.


Liam