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To see how much SanDisk SSD can save your company, replace the default numbers in the fields below with your company's numbers.

  • Number of laptops in your company

    units

  • Average laptop lifecycle in your company

    months

  • Number of laptop users who can benefit from 128GB SSD

    %

  • IT hours per laptop to repair HDD failure

    hours

  • IT hours per laptop to recover from HDD fatal error

    hours

  • Annual number of HDDs with fatal errors that were sent for data recovery

    units

  • Average number of hours that employee waits for a HDD repair

    hours

Percentage of laptop users in your company for each profile

  • Road warriors

    %

  • Moderate travelers

    %

  • Office/home workers

    %

The total percentage should sum up to 100%

  • Calculations are based on SanDisk Ultra® SSD 2.5"1 and HDD 7200 rpm SATA 2.5"2
  • Mean time between failures (MTBF) rate [hours]3: SSD 2,000,000
  • According to industry analysts, the price of a 128GB SSD is expected to be $215 during 2011. This price is based on Gartner SSD Summary 2Q2011 report8.
  • The average annual IT employee salary in the US is $70,000.
  • The average annual laptop user salary in the US is $100,000.
  • Productivity when users are without their laptops falls on the average to 30%.
  • 1SanDisk Ultra® SSD 240 GB 2.5”
  • 2Seagate 7200.4 500 GB ST9500423AS 2.5”
  • 3MTBF – Mean time Between failures, calculated based on the Parts Stress Method, Telcordia SR-332
  • 8Base on Gartner, SSD Summary Q2/11, 128GB pricing in 2011

Results

  • Key SanDisk SSD benefits for
     laptops
    Saving/entire laptop lifecycle of  months
  • Higher reliability
    $ 0
  • Increased user productivity
    $ 0
  • Longer battery life
    $ 0
  • Total savings
    $ 0
    For 1 laptop 
  • SSD price premium for laptops with up to 128GB SSDs over HDD
  • Net savings
    $ 0

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  • Components of SSD Savings

SSD Benefits vs. HDD:
Contributing factors adding up to total SSD savings

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Financial Benefits SSD Savings vs. HDD
Total savings for  laptops with SSDs for entire laptop lifecycle
Major Benefits SanDisk Ultra® SSD 2.5"1 HDD 7200rpm 2.5"2 SSD vs. HDD
Performance3, 4 Sequential Read MB/s 280 MB/s 103 MB/s ~2.5 better
Sequential Write MB/s 270 MB/s 100 MB/s ~2.5 better
Random Read 33,000 IOPS 570 IOPS ~57x faster
Random Write 51,000 IOPS 425 IOPS ~120x faster
Reliability MTBF 5 2,000,000 hours N/A
Shock - Operating 1500G 350G More rugged
Longer battery life Active Power read/write6 0.43W 0.91W ~2x less
Noise Acoustics - Active(Typical) None 26dB7 No noise
Weight 98gr 115gr Lighter
Heat Produces minimal heat during operation Produces heat during operation Minimal heat

1SanDisk Ultra® SSD 240 GB 2.5"
2Seagate 7200.4 500GB ST9500423AS 2.5"
3Sequential Read / Write - MB/s. ATTO 2.46 performance benchamrk, Sequential 128KB, NCQ enabled
4Random Read / Write - Input output per second. IOMETER 2008, Random 4KB, NCQ enabled
5MTBF – Mean time Between failures, calculated based on the Parts Stress Method, Telecordia SR-332
6While running MobileMark 2007, as primary drive. measured average current by Fluke at 1 second intervals
710dB = 1 Bel

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