ASUS SELECTS SANDISK SOLID STATE DRIVE (SSD) FOR NEW ULTRA-THIN NOTEBOOK
- SanDisk creates customized form factor to meet ASUS' design
requirements
- New U100 drive combines SATA III performance with low-power
architecture
- ASUS UX Series ultra-thin notebook measures 0.3cm to 1.7cm and
weighs 1.1kg with an 11.6" screen
Computex, Taiwan, May 31,
2011- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader
in flash memory storage solutions, today announced that ASUS has
selected the U100 drive for use in the new UX Series ultra-thin
notebook. The drive's flexible, cost-effective SATA III performance
and low power consumption allows ASUS to deliver a sleek, powerful
notebook with a long battery life.
The recently announced U100 drive
builds upon the successful SanDisk® P4 modular SSD series, which is
widely used in ultra-thin notebooks and other mobile computing
platforms. The ASUS UX Series notebooks measure 0.3cm to 1.7cm
thick and weigh only 1.1kg while providing remarkable performance
with a SATA III SSD, Intel® core CPU and Instant-On technology.
"SanDisk tailored their SSD to meet
our specific needs and then helped us optimize the drive in our new
UX Series notebook," said S. Y. Shian, corporate vice president and
general manager, notebook business unit, ASUS. "SanDisk's U100
drive allows our notebook to achieve the thin size, fast
performance and long battery life needed to produce an enjoyable
user experience."
"The ASUS UX Series notebook
combines advanced features with the portability that consumers
demand from a mobile computing platform," said Kevin Conley, senior
vice president, solid state drives, SanDisk. "Our form factor
miniaturization leadership enabled us to customize the U100 drive
according to ASUS' needs while providing high performance and low
power consumption."
The U100 drive delivers fast SATA
III performance with up to 450 megabyte per second
(MB/sec)1 sequential read and up to 340MB/sec sequential
write speeds1. The drive's low-power architecture allows OEMs to
extend battery life while maintaining high performance. The U100 is
available in a variety of form factors, including Half-Slim SATA
SSD, mSATA, mSATA mini and 2.5" cased, with capacities ranging from
8 gigabytes (GB)2 to 256GB.
SanDisk SSDs Offer Additional Benefits
- nCache™ Acceleration Technology3 provides fast
random burst write performance for improved system responsiveness
and multitasking functionality
- Based on a JEDEC-standard package for industry compliance
About
SanDisk:
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash
memory storage solutions, from research and development, product
design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and
retail channels. Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory
and storage system technologies have provided customers with new
and transformational digital experiences. SanDisk's diverse product
portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used
in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital
media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB
flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market.
SanDisk's products are used by consumers and enterprise customers
around the world.
SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based
S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company, with more than half its sales
outside the United States. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
1 Based on SanDisk
internal testing of sequential read and write speeds; performance
may be lower depending upon host configuration, host device, OS and
application. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes. Technical
Specifications are preliminary and subject to change.
2 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1
billion bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage.
3 nCache™ acceleration
technology is a large Non Volatile Write Cache, a unique feature in
SanDisk U100 SSD that improves random write performance to ensures
an improved user experience. Studies show that modern operating
systems mostly access the storage device using 4k access blocks.
The cache is filled during these small write commands and emptied
during idle time when the host is not accessing the drive, with no
risk of data loss. For a typical everyday use, the write
performance that the users see is the nCache™ (burst) high
performance, and not steady state (sustained) SanDisk U100 SSD
performance. Based on IOmeter 4K random write test.
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