At Computex Taipei 2007, SanDisk showed off its two new additions to its line of solid state drives (SSD): SanDisk 1.8-inch 64GB UATA 5000 and 2.5-inch 64GB SATA 5000 SSD products. This was trumped by PNY’s announcement of a 2.5-inch 128GB SSD. SanDisk and PNY are stating read speeds of 67MBps and 66MBps, respectively. How’s that for fast boot times and file access, eh?
Neither company lists prices for the drives since they seem to be only going to OEMs right now. PNY sells its 32GB drive at around $350 for large volume orders, so you do the math. Also, don’t expect the PNY drives till third quarter 2007 (its 128GB drives I mean, the 32GB models are currently shipping). SanDisk’s new 64GB models, however, are available now.
PNY Technologies Debuts Solid State Drive Lineup [press release]
SanDisk SSD Solid State Drives [product page]
I wonder if anyone has actually bought that CF-Card HDD replacement board that came out a while ago.
Extremely excited about these SSD drives, though I’m going to wait until they become a commodity.
If they want them to be sold massively, they will have to sell them cheaper, because the change is not very important for the medium consumer, I thing, elsewere, “old” mechanical HD´s will decrease their price… that´s a good new.