The Valuter works with the PC’s hard drive to store and launch the computer’s operating system and software applications. In the PC, it is integrated along with the hard drive and both operate simultaneously to offer less cost per gigabyte.
According to SanDisk, the product is a flash-based PCI express module, which uses the speed of embedded flash memory for frequently accessed files while continuing to use a spinning hard drive for bulk storage of less frequently accessed data. It requires small portion of memory in the computer’s operating system and speeds up data retrieval for boot and application load operations as well as unexpected user access to new files. The hard drive stores files, user-generated content and applications that do not require faster seek times. The two drives operate simultaneously increasing the overall speed and performance of the PC.
This system solution brings SanDisk’s flash performance benefits to the price-sensitive consumer who needs high-capacity storage, said Doreet Oren, director of product marketing for the Computing Solutions division at SanDisk.
SanDisk also said that Vaulter was named as the Best of Innovations 2008 in the Enabling Technologies category at the Consumer Electronics Association innovations design and engineering awards.
Samsung is thought to be the first company to launch a commercial PC sporting NAND flash memory instead of traditional hard drives in May 2006. The Q1-SSD and the Q30-SSD PC’s featured 32-GB flash-based solid state disks. According to Samsung, the SSD reads 300% more quickly than a normal drive, at 53 MB per second, and writes 150% faster, at 28 MB per second.
Source: ComputerWire daily updates
