Archive for March, 2008

Flash based hard drives are being offered on a regular basis now from the top tier notebook manufacturers. There have been lots of recent reports saying that the failure rates have been extremely high with a 20 to 30% return rate. … Over the years Stealth Computer has supplied many customers with solutions utilizing integrated solid state drive technology.

I had my hands on two XPS laptops and did a quick video to show the difference. Red laptop is my XPS that I use daily. Black one arrived from Dell and I uninstalled bloatware before making the video. Note: (Dont’ come back and say I forgot to do this and that, it is not meant to be an official benchmark).

Data retention – though SSD drives use solid state technology, they DO wear out. The more times they are written to and erased, the less time they can maintain data in storage. Hard disk drives can reliably maintain data for ten years …

If ever there was a laptop that would benefit from a solid state drive , it’s this one. The SSD version is lighter than the standard model, has a longer battery life — according to Toshiba — and provides faster disk access

And the X300 isn’t the only laptop that’s doing without a hard drive in favor of a flash solid state drive , or SSD . A version of Apple’s (AAPL) MacBook Air also comes with 64 gigabytes of flash. And there are other defectors, …

www.sandisk.com/SSD See why SanDisk SSD accesses files so quickly

Team 64GB SSD – While many Solid State Drives ( SSD ) come in 2.5” to replace the internal hard drive , some use the ExpresCard format.


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