Bringing Solid State Drive Benefits to Computer Notebook Users

Overview

The benefits of flash are now becoming available to a new group of consumer electronics customers, computer notebook users. As a drop-in replacement for the traditional mechanical Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) can be used inside thin and light laptops, ultra-portable, Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) and other portable computers. Research by Gartner predicts that by 2010 some 32 million units, representing both consumer and professional notebooks, will contain SSDs.