Wednesday, November 14th 2007
SanDisk Offers New Flash-Based PCI-e SSD Accelerator Card
SanDisk Corporation today unveiled a solid-state storage solution that works in conjunction with a PC's hard drive to store and launch the computer's operating system and software applications when needed. The new SanDisk Vaulter Disk, which is a flash-based PCI Express module, tag-teams with your laptop or desktop computers' hard drive to provide enhanced performance and lower load times. Both Vaulter and the hard drive are integrated into the PC and operate simultaneously, while maintaining a low cost per gigabyte. The SanDisk Vaulter Disk will be offered to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) early next year in capacities from 8GB to 16GB.
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12 Comments on SanDisk Offers New Flash-Based PCI-e SSD Accelerator Card
edit: read it once more and seems like it's just a 8 or 16GB SDD hard drive, that happens to be plugged in PCI-e slot? So you'd have to install OS and swap there to see performance gains, but I might be wrong too :)
this sounds awsome with 8-16 gigabytes of storage space....sweet:);)
the only way you rig will benefit highly from this is if your rig runs 1Gb of ram. if you have 2Gb of ram then the card wont even be working for you 80% of the time & will only kick in under certain conditions but even when it kicks in, any improvements on the system are so little they go unnoticed.
its all down to if you got money to throw away - personally id rather take the 2gb ram then run 1gb & 1 of these cards.
I'll buy it.
edit:
That's not a PCIe connector... :confused:
edit2:
It's PCIe Mini Card.
16GB is perfectly enough even for Vista (once tweaked with vLite) and 1-2 multi-gigabyte games.
I have seen such disks in retail but only In Hong Kong lol, I dont think their very popular as most users reported loads of problems with data corruption etc as well as having compatability issues with certain RAM modules.
after that I dont remember hearing anything else about it.