Lifetime is six times that of HDD, SSD "SANDISK G3" with high-speed transfer and high durability is finally released

Formal announcement in January 2009It has been revealed that SanDisk's "SANDISK G 3" series of SSDs, which had not been announced at all, was released at the end.

In addition to high-speed transfer unique to SSD, in addition to being able to reduce replacement cost by achieving a product life as high as six times the HDD, it is a ridiculous SSD with 10 years product warranty, but in North America etc. It seems that shipping has finally started.

Details are as below.
SANDISK G3 SOLID STATE DRIVE SHIPS TO RETAILERS

According to this release, SanDisk began shipping the company's 2.5-inch SSD "SANDISK G3" series for the North American and European markets. The price is $ 229.99 (about 2750 yen) for the 60 GB model and $ 399.99 for the 120 GB model (about 31,600 yen).

This is "SANDISK G3".


San Disk created the G3 seriesExtremeFFS technology for accelerating and prolonging the lifetime of SSDBy adopting, it realizes a long life equivalent to six times the general HDD, and in the case of the 120 GB model, it is said to be able to withstand reading and writing of 80 TB (80000 GB) of data, and also against vibration and shock He said that he realized high resistance.

Although it is an interesting transfer speed, it uses a serial ATA interface for transfer, achieving a reading rate of 220 MB maximum per second and a writing speed of 120 MB per second, which is about twice the HDD of the 7200 revolution model .

At the time announced last year, it was a story that not only Serial ATA model but also Parallel ATA model adopted in old PC etc appears, apparently it seems that it was unified into Serial ATA. At present it is shipping only for North America and Europe, but shipping in Japan should also start. I'd like to wait and expect it.