Monday, March 9th 2009
Solidata Launches 2.5-inch IDE Solid-State Drives
Solidata recently started offering new P2 2.5-inch solid-state drives that come with an IDE interface. These drives are perfect for owners of older machines that do not support SATA ports, or just people that prefer the old 80-pin IDE cables over the new SATA ones. The firm is currently offering 32 GB and 64 GB versions of the IDE SSDs. The P2 drives use MLC SSD with a maximum read speed of 90 MB/sec, and maximum write speed of 70 MB/sec. The power consumption of these drives is 0.24 W at standby while the peak consumption is 0.5 W. Dimensions are standard at 100 x 70 x 9.5 mm (width x depth x height) and the drives weight exactly 75 g.
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12 Comments on Solidata Launches 2.5-inch IDE Solid-State Drives
So what these offer are better heat/noise/power consumption figures.
1./ Zero spin up times
2./ Very low seek times
These points are very important for memory contrained devices where there is virtual memory running.
That would boost the failing car companies. LOL :roll:
Prices are getting better on IDE, and the "new revision" SSDs are decent speeds too.