Thread: Sandisk provides 64GB of SSD Sony Vaio X

Sandisk was nice to have been the leader in flash memory during the glory years of USB sticks and memory cards, the manufacturer has virtually disappeared from the scene since the beginning of the era SSD.Today, the big names are SSD OCZ, Samsung, Toshiba, Indilinx or Intel. But Sandisk is not dead. His SSD 64 GB NCACHE was adopted by the ultraportable Sony Vaio X.

NCACHE? This is the name of responsible technology Sandisk limit wear SSD. There is a large buffer zone (320 MB on a disc of 64 GB) which is used as a write cache: the information is first stored in this area before being rewritten in the DSS. This cache is very beneficial: first, it allows combining several small items into a single sequential write, on the other hand, it reduces wear on the SSD cells. Two points for the SSD lightweight 1.8 "with little flash modules are very important.

Sandisk is still very secretive about its performance pSSD-P2. A brochure dating from 2008 reported rates of 39 MBps read and 17 MBps write. Ridiculous? Not really, when compared to hard drives 1.8 "also very slow. Sandisk to hope that the niche SSD for netbooks or her salvation and that the company returns quickly to compete with the best.