20 February 2012, Singapore – SanDisk Corporation launches SanDisk Extreme SSD, a high-performance solid state drive (SSD) for consumers.
What Is A Solid State Drive
Most of us don’t really understand the concept of Solid State Drives so we hope to explain it in a rather simplified way.
Think of your tablet that you’re using. It has a “hard drive” in there which allows for the rough handling even when you’re on the go. Most of the time, it is using a SSD.
The SSD reads and writes faster and is less noisy than a normal hard drive. It is also shock resistant.
So What’s So Great About the SanDisk Extreme SSD?
- The SanDisk Extreme SSD is up to 10 times faster than a 7,200 RPM hard disk drive so that you can quickly boot and shut down their systems, launch applications faster and reduce wait times.
- More durable and power efficient.
- Boot a PC in less than 16 seconds and quickly shut down the system
- Launch applications in a fraction of the time and reduce in-game delays by generating environments faster during sequence transitions. Important during massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs).
- Up to 83,000 maximum random write Input-Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and up to 44,000 random read2 IOPS.
- High sequential read performance of up to 550 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) and up to 520MB/s sequential write speed deliver faster, more responsive computing.
- The drive contains no moving parts, decreasing the risk of data loss due to shock and vibration, and its mean time between failure (MTBF) greatly exceeds that of hard disk drives, giving users peace of mind that it will retain their files for the long term.
- Consumes 30 percent less power than a hard disk drive while generating less heat and noise, making it an ideal solution for notebook users who want to maximize their battery life while computing on the go.
- Easy to install—simply plug it into a computer’s SATA port.
Pricing and Availability
The SanDisk Extreme SSD is available now in 120 gigabyte (GB)5 and 240GB capacities carrying MSRPs of S$340 and S$600 respectively. A 480GB version of the drive will ship later this year with an MSRP of S$1355.
