Eurocom Extends Storage Options With mSATA Drives From 20GB to 256GB

Eurocom Corporation, a developer of long lifespan, high performance, upgradable notebooks and mobile workstations has been testing, benchmarking and is now adding several choices of mSATA drives to its high performance notebooks computers.

The mSATA drives offered in the Eurocom Neptune 2.0 and Racer 2.0 allow for enhanced configuration options, increased storage capacity, caching and upgrade capability. Another important feature of an mSATA drive is the ability to use the mSATA SSD as a boot drive for speed alongside a large capacity HDD.

"The addition of the mSATA drive to our lineup of configuration options opens the door for our customers to do even more with our notebooks and mobile workstations," explains Mark Bialic, Eurocom president. "Increased storage capacity, caching and boot drive capability are just the start of what it offers our clients. Existing customer can also easily upgrade their current systems with mSATA drives from Eurocom as well."

With the combination of an mSATA SSD and HDD users can take advantage of the supported Intel Smart Response Technology to speed up application loading, system boot times and frequently accessed software. This is done by intelligently learning or loading what customers use the most to a performance SSD for fast access and loading.

mSATA SSDs have several benefits over traditional storage mediums, mainly, energy consumption, small size, fast read write speeds and caching capability.

Eurocom offers mSATA choices from 20GB to 256 GB, MLC to SLC, SATA III (6 GB/s) and SATA II (3 GB/s) to ensure customers have the tool for the job. It currently offers the following mSATA storage options in Eurocom systems as well as upgrade options to existing customers:

20GB mSATA SSD; SLC; Intel 313 Series; 3Gb/s; 25nm; Hawley Creek SSDMAEXC020G301
24GB mSATA SSD; SLC; Intel 313 Series; 3Gb/s; 25nm; Hawley Creek SSDMAEXC024G301
40GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Intel 310 Series; 3Gb/s; SSDMAEMC040G2C1
80GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Intel 310 Series; 3Gb/s; SSDMAEMC080G2C1
128GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Micron/Crucial C400; SATA3 (6Gb/s); 25nm
256GB mSATA SSD; MLC; Micron/Crucial C400; SATA3 (6Gb/s); 25nm

Eurocom technicians have been testing the testing a variety of storage options in the EUROCOM Racer 2.0.

Full complement of test results

Eurocom notebooks supporting mSATA storage:

Eurocom Neptune 2.0

17.3" 1920×1080 Matte or Glossy display
Graphics support for: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M, 675M, 670M, 660M, NVIDIA Quadro support 5010M, 4000M, 3000M, AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Processor: Full line of Intel IVY Bridge Processors. Up to Intel Core i7-3920XM
Storage: Up to 3 storage drives (HDD, SSD, Hybrid) and mSATA. RAID 0/1/5 support

Eurocom Racer 2.0

15.6" 1920×1080 Matte or Glossy display
Graphics support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M, 675M, 670M, 660M, NVIDIA Quadro 5010M, 4000M, 3000M, AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Processor: Full line of Intel IVY Bridge Processors. Up to Intel Core i7-3920XM
Storage: Up to 2 storage drives (HDD, SSD, Hybrid) and mSATA. RAID 0/1/5 support

256GB Crucial m4 mSATA 6Gb/s SSD Specs: