SanDisk Launches Solid-State Drives

SanDisk has introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics – called Ultra Low-Cost PCs (ULCPC) or “netbooks” . The SanDisk pSSD (Parallel ATA solid state drive) eliminates the need for a hard disk drive and can store both the operating system and application data for these new devices.


The new SSD modules available in 4, 8 and 16-gigabyte capacities, with a streaming read speed of 39 megabytes per second (MB/s)2 and a streaming write performance of 17MB/s.2 Supporting both Linux and Microsoft Windows XP operating systems.

SanDisk’s pSSD solid state drives, which are expected to be available starting in August with a price of $250 to $350.