IMETC Store - Intel(R) Solid State Drives
Why Would You Want to
Buy a New Intel® Solid-State Drive?
Main Point:
Solid-State drives
today are kind of expensive compared to the alternative hard disc drive. So why
would you want to buy an Intel® SSD? If money is no issue then stop reading
and just buy it, otherwise let’s see how you could, justify the expense.
Problem:
Let me illustrate the
problem with a real example.
I’m running
again to the airport. No time to charge your laptop with the critical sales
presentation. Four hours to go. Get comfortable in your seat and power up the
laptop to review and make a few last minute changes. Okay perfect, it’s
ready, I’m ready.
Arrive, and quickly setup
my laptop presentation in front of 20+ very interested clients. Everything is
going well, lots of good questions, enthusiasm and interest. I notice the
laptop battery is at 5% and it looks like I need about 30 minutes. Where is the
charger, oh it’s in the car.
Need to wrap it up in
less than 10 minutes, rush the conclusion just before the laptop powers off. We
get the big order but really wondered how I could extend the laptop battery
more than the usual 2.5 hours.
Does this sound like
you? Yes, read on.
You need to check out
the new Intel® Solid-State Drive (SSD) to extend your laptop battery power
and add even more zing in responsiveness performance to Windows applications
simply by upgrading the rotating disc hard drive to a new Intel® X25-M
Solid-State Drive with a compatible standard SATA interface and either 1.8 or
2.5 inch form factor drive.
Typical rotating hard
drives use 8 watts compared to 0.15 watts of a new SSD. Doing the math for a
Toshiba Satellite laptop with a standard 44W-hr battery rated at 2.5 hour tells
me the laptop with rotating hard drive uses 17.6 watts. So with the new
Intel® SSD it uses 9.75 watts. The charged battery will now last 4.5 hours
instead of 2.5. Also with less needed charging cycles a potential for longer
useful life.
Where’s the high
performance zing? Well, Intel® SSD realizes its much higher user
applications performance with typical 10X higher input/output operations per
second (IOPS), 2X higher sustained read data rates and the nearly instant 0.000085
second data access latency time with its faster no moving parts solid-state
design compared to 0.004 seconds or slower rotating hard disc drive mechanical latency
using rotating magnetic data tracks with its head and electro-mechanical
positioning system.
Conclusion:
Today, an Intel®
SSD upgrade is ideal timing for a Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 upgrade
because of the perfect opportunity to change the drive to a new Intel® SSD
and perform a clean install with the new Windows 7 operating system on the SSD,
maximizing IT gain and enabling higher user productivity benefits for 2010 and
beyond.
Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel(R) Solid-State Drives have no moving
parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also
offers faster system responsiveness. And for laptop PCs, the lower power needs
of Intel(R) SSDs translate to longer battery life and lighter laptops.
