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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Dell is one of the first out of the gates to offer Solid State Drives (SSD) in its product line. With no moving parts, these thin hard drives boot impressively quicker than the standard hard drives (HDD) found in todays laptops. The 1.8-inch 32GB SSD from SanDisk will first find themselves on both the Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and the D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks. While 32GB doesn’t sound large, remember just a few years ago 20GB was the standard size for most laptops. With its power consumption savings and quicker access, those with a need for performance rather than for a large density depot, these new Latitudes may be the perfect thing for the next flight to Tokyo.
“This represents an important milestone in the evolution of personal computers with the arrival of solid state flash memory as a durable, efficient alternative to the hard drive,” said Eli Harari, SanDisk’s founder and CEO. “For those enterprise road warriors who rely on their notebook PCs, hard drive crashes with attendant loss of critical data will soon be a thing of the past. We’re delighted that Dell has chosen the SanDisk SSD to launch this technology into their line of mobile PCs.”
We’ve seen these very drives boot up Vista side-by-side a standard HDD and while not twice as fast in boot up, it was much quicker. Dell claims boot up is 34 percent quicker which seems about right.
If this all sounds wonderful and you’re ready to click “Customize” on your next Dell order, prepare for the $549 addition to your final product in that virtual cart. But hey, 34% is a lot of time when booting Vista and it just may be worth it. 