Finally, Solid State Hard Disks (SSD's) are Moving into the Mainstream

By Mark Kolich on January 22, 2009 1:26 PM | No TrackBacks
dell-solid-state-hdd.pngDell has introduced several new storage options for its XPS line of notebooks, including the M1330 and M1730.  A 500GB 7200RPM Seagate hard drive with a free-fall sensor is available for an additional $150 over the base 320GB 5400RPM on the XPS M1330.  In addition, a Samsung 256GB SSD is now available, commanding $400 over the same base drive on the M1330.  The 500GB 7200RPM hard drive and 256GB SSD will be available on more Dell laptop models in the coming weeks.  Read the full report here from Notebook Review.

Unfortunately, I have yet to see any HP notebooks on hpshopping.com that use SSD's.  Samsung has published some interesting SSD performance numbers for their new SSD line.  I'm looking forward to finally seeing more SSD's move into the data center; maybe once I get a few SSD's I can finally stop worrying about excessive heat killing my drives.

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A Silicon Valley native, Mark Kolich is a full-time Software Engineer, a casual entrepreneur, and a consultant for hire. A web technologies expert, his current focus is on building powerful and robust cloud-driven web-applications using Java, PHP, Perl, AJAX, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. His favorite programming languages are PHP, Java and JavaScript. He uses Linux, enjoys biking to work, loves building great software, and always writes elegant, readable, and maintainable code.

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