Solid State Disks Market Heating Up

March 16, 2007: The solid state storage market is gaining momentum, with DRAM manufacturer Super Talent Technology releasing a range of SSD drives just as SanDisk has announced its own 32GB laptop drive.

SST boasts that its drives feature the industry-standard Serial ATA (SATA) interface, making them 100 percent compatible with existing hardware while retaining all the benefits of solid state technology.

The company is offering the drives in standard 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch, and 3.5-inch form factors, and claims that the technology enjoys drastically improved data access times, 85 percent less power consumption and sustained transfer speeds comparable to magnetic drives.

These are all attributes typical to SSD technology, however, what currently sets SST’s products apart from its peers is that it is offering capacities of up to 32GB for the 1.8-inch SATA drives, up to 64GB for the 2.5-inch drives and 128GB for 3.5-inch drives.

“This new generation of SSD drives delivers all the benefits of Flash based storage – rugged reliability, low power consumption and fast access speed,” says Joe James, Marketing Director at Super Talent Technology. “But we’ve engineered these drives to offer twice the data throughput at half the cost per gigabyte compared to the first SSD drives we introduced a year-ago.”

The announcement from SST comes just as SanDisk has heralded the arrival of its own 32GB 2.5 inch notebook SSD. SanDisk is offering its drive for US$350 to manufacturers making large orders.

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