San Disk Unveils 64 GB Solid State Drive
Just after I starting lusting after the 32GB solid state drive that was previously announced, SanDisk has dropped a 64GB version.
Scheduled for volume availability by the end of this year, the 64 GB version offers the same specifications as its smaller sister unit, which include a sustained data read rate of 67 MB/s and 7000 IOPS (inputs/outputs per second ) for a 512 byte transfer.
Sandisk claims that notebooks equipped with these NAND flash-based SSDs can boot Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise in as little as 30 seconds and access files at an average speed of 0.11 milliseconds. A comparable notebook using a hard disk requires an average 48 seconds to boot and an average 17 milliseconds to access files, Sandisk said.
This hopefully will be a key element to help create portables that are capable of lasting more then five hours.
