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Dell Latitude D420 Solid State Hard Drive

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May 17, 2007 |

dell-latitude-d420.jpgSo, here comes Dell with a solid state hard drive option.  If you have no idea what the blazes I’m talking about, I posted about the SanDisk Solid State drive over at PaulTech.  That will give you an idea about solid state technology and how it could help us.  In any case, Dell recently announced that they started shipping Latitude D420’s with the option to get the SanDisk drives.

“Engineering tests show that the SSD has an operating shock tolerance of up to 1,300 Gs, which is twice the rating of mechanical drives. In fact, during extreme impact testing the surrounding notebook hardware breaks before the drive. In addition, the drives are predicted to reduce the probability of failure by three-and-one-half times compared to standard mechanical drives. This will help reduce costs associated with hard drive failures, which analyst firm Gartner reports is one of two top sources of system malfunctions in notebooks and accounts for up to 45 percent of total hardware failures.

‘This represents an important milestone in the evolution of personal computers with the arrival of solid state flash memory as a durable, efficient alternative to the hard drive,’ said Eli Harari, SanDisk’s founder and CEO.’For those enterprise road warriors who rely on their notebook PCs, hard drive crashes with attendant loss of critical data will soon be a thing of the past. We’re delighted that Dell has chosen the SanDisk SSD to launch this technology into their line of mobile PCs.’

The new drives can also increase system performance by up to 23 percent and decreases boot time by up to 34 percent compared to traditional HDDs available with the Latitude D420 and D620 ATG.”

So, why in the heck wouldn’t you get this option?  Price - to the tune of an extra $550.  Give that a little time for it to drop like a rock.


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