Super Talent Launches SSDs for Asus Eee PCs
64GB for $149
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 9, 2008 at 3:56 pmSuper Talent Technology, manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, announced a new line of mini PCI-Express SSDs, available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities, that were designed explicitly for the Asus Eee PC.
Standard Eee PCs have maximum 20GB of storage. These cost-effective upgrade cards offer up to 64GB of solid state storage. Super Talent‚s Mini PCIe cards have been tested extensively with Asus Eee PCs to ensure performance and compatibility.
Description
FPM16GHAE 16GB mini PCIe SSD
- Max Read/Write Speed: 40/15 MB/sec
- Expected Street Price: $53
FPM32GHAE 32GB mini PCIe SSD
- Max Read/Write Speed: 40/15 MB/sec
- Expected Street Price: $79
FPM64GHAE 64GB mini PCIe SSD
- Max Read/Write Speed: 40/15 MB/sec
- Expected Street Price: $149
Super Talent Director of Marketing, Joe James mentioned:" It’s a natural extension of our SSD product range to offer SSDs for popular netbook brands. Solid state storage is ideal for entry level mobile PCs". These mini PCIe SSDs are sampling now, and will be in mass production in November.
Comments
These flash products are not extremely fast, but at $2.33 per gigabyte, it's one of the lowest retail price we have ever seen.