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Sandisk releases 32GB solid state drive

Still a tad expensive
By INQUIRER staff
Thu Jan 04 2007, 11:50
A SOLID STATE drive using flash memory is being shown off at a storage show in the US next week.

Sandisk said the 32GB drive, which isn't yet shipping in retail, will cost $600.

The firm rates it as yielding a mean time between failure (MTBF) of two million hours, has a sustained read rate of 62MB per sec and a random read rate of 7,000 inputs/outputs per second.

alt='sandiskthing'It claims it only consumes .4 watts compared to one watt for a regular HDD. The 1.8-inch drive is being made available to hardware OEMs now. µ

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Where to buy

I live in the UK and wonder where you are meant to buy these. I can only find one retailer flogging them for £250 here.&#xD;
Wonder if they will become mainstream soon and lower priced?

posted by : MightyMike, 20 February 2008 Complain about this comment
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