Wednesday, April 25th 2007
Dell Offers 32GB SSD on Select Latitude Models
Dell is the next big manufacturer to enter the solid-state disk arena today by offering 1.8" SanDisk UATA 5000 drives on its Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and Latitude D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks. SanDisk's 1.8" SSD drive was first announced in early January and features patented TrueFFS flash management technology. Also of importance is the drive's MTBF of 2 million hours. The drive offers sustained read speeds of 62MB/sec and had an average access speed of 0.12 milliseconds. The drive also boosts overall system performance by 23 percent and reduced boot times by 34 percent on the D420 and D620. The SanDisk UATA 5000 is currently available as a $450 option on the D420 and a $300 option on the D620 ATG. The drive is also available direct from Dell at a price of $549.
Source:
DailyTech
13 Comments on Dell Offers 32GB SSD on Select Latitude Models
16 gigs of ram on a PCI card...lol
Would be cool if a company designed a series of these drives specifically for operating systems. Not sure what would be different though.
A few more years and I'm hoping they can increase the transfter rate fivefold and the storage twentyfold. I'm just dying to loose the mechanical harddrive and not have to wait for apps taking forever to load.
Now I have two WD HDs (250Gb for OS/apps and 500Gb for media/files), a 80Gb USB one for vital backups and I burn the occasional DVD to store someplace else. Can't be too careful with things like digital pictures which can't be replaced.
I have a 40GB drive from my prebuilt system from summer 2002. It still works fine and I'm using that for backing up important stuff, like my writing and such.
I have a 120GB drive for backing up music and storage in general. My 160GB drive is for Windows and program files.
Hopefully I won't need swapping for the next year or two, but if I do let it be for some amazing new flash drive.
Oh and to the people who havent kept with the times: SSD drives are awesome because they have no moving parts. No heat, no noise, incredibly faster on the access times (upto 10x faster than a 15k RPM drive, so you can imagine what they do to normal drives) and so on.
They're damn perfect for an operating system/page file, or anything that uses lots of small files - the access time is so low, fragmentation doesnt even really matter anymore either.