“In these challenging economic times," continued Niebel, "IT managers are looking for ways to reduce IT spending without adversely affecting their user base and the SanDisk G3 SSD solution extends the notebook replacement cycle an additional two years at minimal cost.”

The SanDiskG3 SSDs will be available to this market in mid 2009, in a 2.5” PATA configuration expressly for this purpose.

If you've slipped a tad behind in your recognition of acronyms, PATA stands for Parallel ATA, which is the new term for what a mere few years ago was named SATA (Serial ATA).

In addition, the SanDisk G3 SSDs will be available for do-it-yourself (DIY) enthusiasts. “An SSD upgrade improves the user experience like nothing else you can do to a computer.” Heye concluded.

SanDisk’s flash technology is produced at fabrication plants in Yokkaichi, Japan, where SanDisk and its partner, Toshiba Corporation, share the output. The SSD controller and firmware were designed by SanDisk expressly for the G3 SSD.

You can find out more about flash memory technology, and the significant role that it plays inside laptops and other consumer electronic devices, from SanDisk’s SSD Academy.

There's a webcast of the SanDisk CES 2009 press conference at www.sandisk.com/ceswebcast