Specifications
The Ridata eSATA SSD ash drive supports multiple
operating systems. No driver is needed in Windows
ME®, Windows 2000®, Windows XP®, Windows
VISTA®, Mac 9.x or later, Linux Kernel 2.4 or later. It
also supports 1-port 1.5/3.0Gbps SATA I/II interface.
It is shock resistant and noise-free, and offers long-
time data retention. It may also be used as a bootable
device while in Fix mode.
Available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, it measures
3.5”x1”x0.3” (lwd) and weighs 0.6 ounces.
Kingston www.kingston.com
With the SSDNow E
Series and SSDNow
M Series, they
are shipping the
rst two products
in its SSDNow
line of solid-state
drives (SSD). The
SSDNow E Series
is specically
designed for the enterprise server environment while
the SSDNow M Series is built for the road warrior
who demands ultimate performance from a notebook
PC. Kingston is using Intel’s solid-state drives.
The drives have greater input and output operations
per second (IOPS). For enterprises they can fewer
SSDs compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD),
which also leads to energy savings in a server
environment. For the notebook user it allows for faster
boot times and quicker application load times.
It uses a standard SATA hard disk drive interface
but unlike an HDD, they are very rugged and can
withstand shock and extreme environments as there
are no moving parts. They come equipped with
S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology) to monitor the integrity and reliability
of the drives. The drives are backed by a three-
year warranty, 24/7 tech support and KingstonCare.
Features and Specications:
SSDNow E Series: 32GB,250MB/sec. read, •
170MB/sec. write
SSDNow M Series: 80GB,250MB/sec. read, •
70MB/sec. write
Form factor: 2.5” •
SanDisk www.sandisk.com/ssd
They unveiled its third-generation family of solid-
state drives (SSDs), using multi-level cell (MLC)
NAND ash memory technology. Designed as
drop-in replacements for hard-disk drives (HDDs)
in notebook PCs, each are available with a SATA-II
interface. Available
in capacities of 60,
120 and 240GB,
the unit MSRPs
are $149, $249 and
$499, respectively.
The G3 SSDs are
more than ve
times faster than
the fastest 7,200
RPM HDDs and
more than twice as fast as SSDs shipping in 2008,
clocking in at 40,000 vRPM and anticipated sequential
performance of 200MB/s read and 140MB/s write.
SanDisk G3 SSD is signicantly more reliable than a
hard disk drive. It is 5 time more rugged, withstanding
shock and vibrations, and its MTTF (mean time to
failure) is 6 times better than HDDs. The G3 SSDs
provide a Longterm Data Endurance (LDE) of 160
terabytes written (TBW) for the 240GB version,
sufcient for over 100 years of typical user usage.
Toshiba www.toshiba.com
Expanding their line up of NAND-ash-based solid
state drives (SSD) with the industry’s rst 2.5-inch
512-gigabyte (GB) SSD and a broad family of fast
read/write SSDs based on 43 nanometer (nm) Multi-
Level Cell NAND. The SSD family also includes
capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB.
It utilizes an advanced MLC controller that achieves
higher read/write speeds, parallel data transfers and
wear leveling
to optimize
performance,
reliability
and
endurance.
The
maximum
sequential
read speed
is 240MB per
second (MBps) and maximum sequential write speed
is 200MBps.
They did an interesting show of putting a SSD on a
vibrator to show it would not affect performance.