SANDISK'S MODULAR SOLID STATE DRIVE ADOPTED BY SONY’S ULTRA-THIN VAIO X LAPTOP
2nd Generation
SanDisk pSSD Solid State Drive Running Windows 7 Contributes to
Laptop's Light Weight and Low Power
Consumption
Milpitas, Calif., November 3, 2009
- SanDisk Corporation
(NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today
announced that the 64-gigabyte (GB)1 SanDisk® pSSDTM
Gen2 solid state drive was selected by Sony as the SSD of choice
for its new VAIO X ultra-thin laptop.
Solid State Drives (SSD) use no
moving parts, enabling improved durability that helps prevent data
loss resulting from drive failure. Computers with SSD run quieter
and cooler, and use less power than conventional hard disk drives
(HDD). The SanDisk pSSD drive's small size complements ultra-thin
laptops with small form factor requirements.
The SanDisk pSSD offers several
features that contribute to the extreme thinness and long battery
life of this lightweight Windows 7 notebook. The pSSD's compact
size (weighing only 7.1grams and measuring 54mm x 32mm x 4.4mm) and
LIF PATA interface are well-suited to Sony's particular form factor
requirement. In addition, the drive's power consumption (average
power of 0.15W2) is significantly lower than that of a
traditional hard disk drive.
SanDisk's modular solid state drive,
SanDisk pSSD, offers 9,000 vRPM3 of performance and has
the added benefit of employing nCache™ technology, a large
non-volatile write cache technology that boosts burst random write
performance up to three times over steady state performance and up
to 20 times faster than pSSD Gen1 to further enhance the user
experience4. nCache technology improves user
responsiveness and helps prevent incidence of drive "stalling."
"The release of Sony's VAIO X
symbolizes a market shift towards pioneering flash-based laptop
designs, eliminating the weight and size constraints of the legacy
hard disk drive," said Doreet Oren, director product marketing,
solid state drives, SanDisk. "The SanDisk pSSD drive enables
laptops to be thinner and lighter, while eliminating the mechanical
slow downs and malfunctions most commonly attributed to the hard
disk drive."
"The selection of SanDisk pSSD
drives by tier-1 OEMs for the newest small, thin and light-weight
laptop designs is a vote of confidence for not only SanDisk
solutions, but also for the potential of SSDs to move the computing
market light years forward," said Jim McGregor, analyst at In-Stat,
a Reed Business independent industry research firm. "PC OEMs
understand the performance and power consumption benefits of SSDs
and are working hard to bring these solutions quickly and
affordably to the end user."
SanDisk pSSD Gen2 drives support
Windows XP, Linux, and Windows 7, the OS of choice for the Sony
VAIO X laptop. SanDisk pSSD Gen 2 comes in a variety of PATA and
SATA interfaces and is available to OEMs in capacities that range
from 8GB to 64GB. More information about SanDisk pSSD products is
available at: www.sandisk.com\pssd
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards,
from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer
branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio
includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and
camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for
consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices;
and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon
Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales
outside the United States.
11 gigabyte (GB) = 1
billion bytes
2While running MobileMark and average (typical)
power
3vRPM (virtual Revolutions Per Minute) - a metric to
compare SSD performance in client PCs with the HDD and with other
SSDs. vRPM = 50 / ((0.5 / 4kB random read IOPS) + 0.5 / 4kB random
write IOPS))
4Performance based on internal testing and projections
may vary depending on host device.
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from:
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SanDisk's web site/home page address: www.sandisk.com
© 2009 SanDisk Corporation. SanDisk
and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation,
registered in the United States and other countries. SanDisk pSDD
is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. Other brand names mentioned
herein are for identification purposes only and may be the
trademarks of their respective holder (s).
This press release contains certain
forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product
introductions, specifications, applications, markets, and customers
that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous
risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking
statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these
forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others:
market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our
expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these
products in new markets that we are targeting, our products may not
perform as expected or may not be available at the prices, in the
regions, in the capacities or at the time expected and the other
risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange
Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our
most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly
reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information
contained in this press release.
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