SanDisk, inventor and world’s largest supplier of flash storage cards, is a global leader in flash memory design and manufacture.

Their product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk Corporation is a Silicon Valley-based company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.

Designed as drop-in replacements for hard-disk drives (HDDs) in notebook PCs, the initial members in the SanDisk G3 family are SSD C25-G3 and SSD C18-G3 in the standard 2.5” and 1.8” form factors respectively, each available with a SATA-II interface and available in capacities of 60, 120 and 240GB.

The G3 SSDs are more than five times faster than the fastest 7,200 RPM HDDs and more than twice as fast as SSDs shipping in 2008, clocking in at 40,000 vRPM1 and anticipated sequential performance of 200MB/s read and 140MB/s write3. They provide a Longterm Data Endurance (LDE) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for the 240GB version, sufficient for over 100 years of typical user usage.

“SanDisk’s G3 SSD has met the demand of a 120GB SSD at less than USD$250 with an exceptional user experience” said Rich Heye, senior VP and General Manager of SanDisk's Solid State Drives (SSD) business unit.

“Three key features developed by SanDisk enable this new design: a new SSD algorithm called ExtremeFFSTM allows random write performance to potentially improve by as much as 100 times over conventional algorithms; reliable 43nm multi-level cell (MLC) all bit-line (ABL) NAND flash; and SanDisk’s new SSD controller, which ties together the NAND and the algorithm.”

Heye explained: “With large capacities and aggressive pricing, SSDs are poised to enter mainstream corporate notebooks in 2009.”

“Given the current economic environment, corporate IT managers have also described a desire to extend the service life of existing notebooks. These notebooks are already maxed out on DRAM, and struggle to meet users’ performance expectations."

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