ASUS Selects SanDisk Solid State Drive (SSD) for New Ultra-Thin Sandy Bridge Notebook

SanDisk Corporation, specialist in flash memory storage solutions, has announced that ASUS has selected the U100 drive for use in its new UX Series ultra-thin notebook. The drive’s flexible, cost-effective SATA III performance and low power consumption allows ASUS to deliver a sleek, powerful notebook with a long battery life.

SanDisk has created a customized form factor to meet ASUS design requirements for its UX Series ultra-thin notebook that measures 0.3cm to 1.7cm and weighs 1.1kg with an 11.6 screen

The recently announced U100 drive builds upon the successful SanDisk P4 modular SSD series, which is widely used in ultra-thin notebooks and other mobile computing platforms. The ASUS UX Series notebooks measure 0.3cm to 1.7cm thick and weigh only 1.1kg while providing remarkable performance with a SATA III SSD, Intel core CPU and Instant-On technology.

“SanDisk tailored their SSD to meet our specific needs and then helped us optimize the drive in our new UX Series notebook.” says S. Y. Shian, ASUS corporate vice president and general manager, notebook business unit. “SanDisk’s U100 drive allows our notebook to achieve the thin size, fast performance and long battery life needed to produce an enjoyable user experience.”

“The ASUS UX Series notebook combines advanced features with the portability that consumers demand from a mobile computing platform,” comments Kevin Conley, senior vice president, solid state drives, SanDisk. “Our form factor miniaturization leadership enabled us to customize the U100 drive according to ASUS needs while providing high performance and low power consumption.”

The U100 drive delivers fast SATA III performance with up to 450 megabyte per second (MB/sec)1 sequential read and up to 340MB/sec sequential write speeds1. The drive’s low-power architecture allows OEMs to extend battery life while maintaining high performance. The U100 is available in a variety of form factors, including Half-Slim SATA SSD, mSATA, mSATA mini and 2.5 cased, with capacities ranging from 8 gigabytes (GB) to 256GB.

SanDisk SSDs Offer Additional Benefits

• nCache Acceleration Technology3 provides fast random burst write performance for improved system responsiveness and multitasking functionality nCache acceleration technology is a large Non Volatile Write Cache, a unique feature in SanDisk U100 SSD that improves random write performance to ensures an improved user experience. Studies show that modern operating systems mostly access the storage device using 4k access blocks. The cache is filled during these small write commands and emptied during idle time when the host is not accessing the drive, with no risk of data loss. For a typical everyday use, the write performance that the users see is the nCache (burst) high performance, and not steady state (sustained) SanDisk U100 SSD performance. Based on IOmeter 4K random write test.
• Based on a JEDEC-standard package for industry compliance

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