SanDisk claims new SSDs will dramatically increase speed, endurance

By Eric Lai

November 6, 2008 12:00 PM ET

Comments

(0)

« Prev

Top Stories

While LDE is like the tire's rated number of miles, this would be like "taking a coin to see how much tread is actually left on the tire," Barnetson said.

It would be similar to the SMART spec used by conventional hard drives to measure the health of spinning hard drives, Barnetson said. SMART has been criticized as unreliable because it cannot predict when a drive might suddenly fail because of mechanical problems or shock. But since SSDs are known to be less vulnerable to such types of failures, this specification would be far more accurate, he said. And it could be helpful for IT managers who have thus far been reluctant to replace spinning drives with SSDs because of failure fears, he said.

SanDisk is proposing this specification to the T13 technical standards committee, Barnetson said.

Stephen Weinger, marketing manager for NAND flash products at rival Samsung Electronics Inc., declined to comment on SanDisk's proposals.

Samsung last month pulled its unsolicited $5.85 billion offer to buy SanDisk, citing a lack of progress and worsening business conditions.

« Prev

Comment Recommend Digg Twitter ShareThis

Email Print Send Feedback Reprints

Jump to comments

Sandisk

Additional Resources

Xerox

Win a color printer!

By using solid ink technology only from Xerox, you could save up to 65% by printing color for the cost of black and white. Enter for a chance to WIN a PhaserTM 8860 network color printer!

Microsoft

Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 today.

Save time and mitigate security risk. Deploy it now.

Sybase

NEXT-GENERATION MOBILITY PLATFORMS

In this white paper, IDC analyzes the role of next-generation mobile enterprise platforms as organizations seek a more strategic deployment of mobile solutions.

Learn the important issues you must consider before starting your next mobility initiative. Get your mobility white paper from IDC now, compliments of Sybase.

	Computerworld Daily News (First Look and Wrap-Up)
	Computerworld Blogs Newsletter
	The Weekly Top 10
	Cloud Computing

resource center

Newsletter Sign-Up

SanDisk claims new SSDs will dramatically increase speed, endurance

Sandisk

Additional Resources

What People Are Saying

White Papers & Webcasts

Computerworld Reports

White Papers

Sponsored Links