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SanDisk Vaulter 16GB SSD Sneaks In Via PCIe Port
Posted by Wilson Rothman at 1:05 PM on November 14, 2007
Today SanDisk revealed Vaulter, a 8GB or 16GB flash drive that can hold your entire OS, designed to sit on the PCIe port inside a laptop. In Windows, this creates a separate letter drive, which speeds the hell out of your computer, without taking the place of your 2.5" SATA-connected HDD. It's not a Santa Rosa "Robson" thing either—it's a real drive, not some caching assistant. (In case you're wondering, Mac support is coming.) Performance acceleration comes from "pre-controlling the distribution of storage data between itself and the hard drive." The fact that it's on the PCIe port means that both storage devices can work in parallel. Now, the bad news: SanDisk is only offering it to OEM partners at first. We won't be able to buy them a la carte for a little while. [SanDisk]
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diacronic
Posted 5:36 PM 14/11/07
@Strahd414: Ding Ding Ding Ding. Knowing the EEE has a second one free and has a SSD already it would be a nice addition for it. Plus I can't come up with anything else that would fill that spot beside a wifi card , which the laptop already has.
diacronic
fpn1010
Posted 12:31 PM 14/11/07
@nutbastard: Don't forget the 8GB SDHC card. 32 gigs of flash total...that's definitely drool-worthy.
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