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SanDisk's affordable 240GB SSD: 7x faster than a hard disk
Available this summer for around $500, this 2.5-inch SATA drive is as fast as it is affordable. Using a marketing term SanDisk invented, the drive is rated at 40,000 VRPM, or Virtual Revolutions Per Minute. What that means to the rest of us is that the drive should perform about 7 times faster than a typical hard drive, giving us faster boot times and more responsive programs. We'll be saving up.
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By hollywood_hillbilly at 9:25 AM ON 01/08/09
Time to retire the raptors.
By Jeffrey at 11:04 AM ON 01/08/09
oooo, sweet hd and manicure of the hand model. lol
By powerhouse at 11:35 AM ON 01/08/09
"40,000 VRPM, or Virtual Revolutions Per Second."
Wouldn't that be Revolutions Pre Minute.
By Curtis Walker at 12:05 PM ON 01/08/09
Powerhouse: Yes. Thank you.
By lnoel at 12:16 PM ON 01/08/09
Great to see! Looking forward to actually my laptop in a case actually built for a laptop instead of a giant bag full of giant hds!
By wpbotz at 1:44 PM ON 01/08/09
I wonder if I will be able to drop this in my existing laptop or will this thing generate too much heat?
By pluto at 11:11 PM ON 01/08/09
I do believe that solid state means no moving parts so heat generated by friction would be created. Wether or not this thing runs hot though for other reasons though who knows. I can't hardly wait for 3 more generations of this thing to have the price down.
By TheUnemployed at 10:04 PM ON 01/11/09
So far I have not seen on paper where any ssd are faster read write speeds, and I still believe that they should still support and make drives for the pata, the rest of us.
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