SanDisk products

Tuesday, November 20th 2007 - 11:30 CET - Comments: 0

T hree flash-based products from SanDisk Corporation were named honorees in the Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Awards sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association. The products, consisting of a solid-state drive, a high-capacity mobile phone card and a new computer acceleration module, will be displayed at January’s International CES in Las Vegas, where SanDisk is exhibiting in South Hall 3, Booth 30768. Honorees were announced at CES Unveiled, the official press preview for the show. Products entered in the competition were judged by a panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting-edge consumer electronics products.

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SanDisk 8GB microSDHC

SanDisk microSDHC 8-gigabyte (GB) flash storage card was selected as an honoree in the category of Wireless Handsets Accessories. About the size of a fingernail, the 8GB microSDHC can hold more than 4,000 high-resolution pictures and as many as 2,000 digital songs or up to 15 hours of MPEG 4 video.2 The product began shipping in October.

 

 

 

64GB SATA 5000

SanDisk's 64GBSATA 5000 2.5-inch solid-state drive (SSD) was chosen as an Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award honoree in the Computer Peripherals category. Introduced earlier this year at Computex in Taiwan, the 64GB SATA 5000 is positioned to achieve the "sweet spot" of memory storage for laptop computers. It is aimed at both enterprise users and early-adopter consumers such as gamers.

 

 

 

SanDisk Vaulter Disk

Concurrently, Vaulter Disk was selected as the top honoree in the Enabling Technologies category. The flash-based module works in conjunction with a PC's hard drive to store and launch the computer's operating system and software applications. The new SanDisk Vaulter Disk will be available to OEMs early next year.

 

8GB SDHC flash card

Commenting on the 8GB SDHC flash card, Michael Romero, senior director of SanDisk's mobile consumer solutions division, said, "With these new cards, any mobile phone with a compatible microSDHC slot can have as much storage as an iPhone. In addition to storing large amounts of music, pictures and videos, these removable cards let consumers share the content they create with friends, easily move files between card and computer and offer a way to quickly add more capacity."

 

SanDisk SSD product

Doreet Oren, director of product marketing for SanDisk's computing solutions division, said: "The 64GB SSD and Vaulter flash module demonstrate SanDisk's leadership in developing flash-based PC storage solutions that can replace or work in unison with hard drives in laptops and PCs. These two products not only improve the performance and reliability of PCs but also drive down the total cost of ownership over today's traditional mechanical drives. We are pleased and honored with the industry recognition of our wide portfolio of solutions for the personal computing market."

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