In recent years, the computing industry has begun to shift towards pioneering flash-based designs, eliminating the weight and size constraints of the legacy hard disk drives. As a result, users are increasingly looking for always-on, always-connected computing capabilities and innovative ultra-thin and light weight PC and embedded products designs that are easily portable but do not sacrifice performance.

SanDisk® pSSD ™ Modular solid state drive (pSSD) is the ideal storage solution for such devices. pSSD's small form factor and power efficiency capabilities allow PC and embedded products manufactures to deliver thin, light-weight devices, with low power consumption, to save energy and extend battery usage time, and other essential portable features such as less noise.

SanDisk's design team is always up to date, developing new form factors to support industry standards and market needs. The SanDisk pSSD product family delivers multiple form factors, compatible with a variety of interfaces and connectors, suitable for an array of computing devices. Read More

In addition, pSSD's leverages innovative flash designs to deliver enhanced PC performance. SanDisk's pSSD has the added benefit of employing nCache™ technology¹, a large non-volatile write cache technology that boosts burst random write performance up to x2 over steady state performance.

SanDisk pSSD Gen 2 comes in a variety of PATA and SATA interfaces and is available to OEMs in capacities that range from 8GB to 64GB².

Key Features

• High Performance
  nCache¹ acceleration technology
• High Reliability
  MTBF⁴ of 2,000,000 hours
• High Endurance
  Up to 36.5 TBW LDE³
• Light Weight:
  Up to 9gr⁶
• Low Power consumptions
  Average power of 0.1W to 0.3W⁵
• Wide Variety
  8GB², 16GB, 32 GB, 6BGB
  A variety of SATA and PATA interfaces.

Footnotes:
1 nCache™ acceleration technology is a large Non Volatile Write Cache, a unique feature in pSSD-P2 and S2 that improves random write performance and 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 nCacheTM (burst) high performance, and not steady state (sustained) pSSD performance. Based on IOmeter 4K random write test.

2 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage

3 Approximations based on LDE (Long-term Data Endurance) - an industry metric, introduced by SanDisk, that quantifies how much data can be written to a SSD in its lifespan expressed in terabytes written (TBW). Data is written using typical PC transfer size , written at a constant rate over the life of the SSD and data is retained for at least 1 year upon LDE exhaustion. Based on SanDisk internal measurements, a typical client PC user writes 4GB/day

4 MTBF - Mean time before failures based on part stress analysis.

5 Assumes DIPM (Device Initiated Power Management) is enabled

6 Dimensions and Weight vary based on form factor type and capacity