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PCIe Flash Drive for OS

610 points posted to New Product Ideas, Laptops by coachcg 11/14/07



This would be great to get in new Dell laptops:

SanDisk revealed Vaulter, a 8GB or 16GB flash drive that can hold your entire OS, designed to sit on the PCIe port inside a laptop. In Windows, this creates a separate letter drive, which speeds the heck out of your computer, without taking the place of your 2.5" SATA-connected HDD. It's not a Santa Rosa "Robson" thing either—it's a real drive, not some caching assistant. (In case you're wondering, Mac support is coming.) Performance acceleration comes from "pre-controlling the distribution of storage data between itself and the hard drive." The fact that it's on the PCIe port means that both storage devices can work in parallel. Now, the bad news: SanDisk is only offering it to OEM partners at first. We won't be able to buy them a la carte for a little while.

Even better if we can get them for upgrades to current laptop models.

jervis961
11/14/07		 OK more info needed. Do you have a link?
sugarbear
11/14/07		 More info needed.
jervis961
11/14/07		 http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/sandisk-vaulter-disk-pre-announced/
premcv
11/14/07		 Sweet! I like it already!
jorge
11/14/07		 Yes, good product, just need more specs (speed on write vs read), speed to boot OS, etc...
coachcg
11/14/07		 The source of the info above: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces-preview-2008/sandisk-vaulter-16gb-ssd-sneaks-i...< agree - some more specs would be great, but I am still searching for them...
sugarbear
11/14/07		 I can see lots of possibilities here.
kgraham
11/26/07		 Why bother? Dell's been shipping SATA SSD's for months:

http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/111350/dell-gets-flash-with-ssd-option-for-laptop...
sugarbear
11/26/07		 @kgraham, your link does not work.
kgraham
11/27/07		 try this

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2007/2007_...< solid state drive is an excellent storage technology for our mobile users," said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer at Dell. "We are committed to leading the industry in delivering these new drives and will offer them across Dell's next generation of Latitude products."

Press release stated that initial availability was on the Latitude D420 and D620 ATG. Footnotes suggest that its the SanDisk SSD SATA 5000.
sugarbear
11/27/07		 This one works, thank you.
coachcg
11/27/07		 I think this would be a happy medium for those who still want the storage capacity and do not wish to pay the premium for a SSD that are not, as of yet, near the size of traditional hard drives.
ah1f
11/30/07		 It would be great to boot from the expasion slot and save the HD for storage. I was checking on this today? Will Insperon notebooks boot from the slot?
kgraham
11/30/07		 So you still have the option of using the ExpressCard for your SSD:
http://www.expresscard-info.com/tags/devices/memory_devices
...or utilizing the media bay (search dell.com for "secondary module bay disk").
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