Many people are aching to get their hands on a solid state drive. The extreme access speeds and the lack of moving parts makes the choice a good one for those who have laptops and aren’t especially careful with them.
It is also nice for those who worship speed, and don’t know how to use a disk defragmenter.
There are lots of underpowered laptops around (I happen to own one) that aren’t going to get much faster with anything easily added by the typical user. For most laptops, a CPU change is out of the question, and only so much can be accomplished by adding memory. On the other hand, adding a solid state drive is like putting a Roots-type blower on your mom’s old 307 Chevy Nova. It turns the grocery getter into king of the street. One problem for many is that the slightly older machine will only have a parallel ATA interface (like mine).
The Red Panther drives are available in both 1.8″ and 2.5″ sizes, and unlike any other manufacturers I’ve seen (though my search is by no means exhaustive) they are also available in parallel ATA interface.
from Tech Connect
The solid state drive market will get a little more crowded as Jay Di Es Inc. (Japanese company) has revealed that it is planning on releasing a full line-up of 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch NAND-based storage solutions. Part of the new Red Panther series, the SSDs go from 32GB to 256GB (128GB is max for the 1.8-inch models) in capacity, will be backed by a one-year warranty and come bundled with the SSD Inspector Lite management software.
According to their maker, the 1.8-inch PATA ZIF and 2.5-inch PATA drives provide read/write speeds of 65/30 MB/s, while the 2.5-inch SATA 3.0 Gbps SSDs reach 220/160 MB/s. For now only the prices of the 1.8-inch Red Panther SSDs surfaced and they are about $110, $196 and $327 for the 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models, respectively.
With this entry into the market, perhaps other manufacturers will come up with some ATA-133 models of their own, and more of those PCs that Microsoft talks about extending the life with Windows 7 will stay in service, while making owners very happy with new found speed.
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now there’s more than one way to store lots of things on your computer…
nothing to break, or hear rattling around in your notebook
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