SanDisk wants to replace hard drives with low cost SSD

Credit: SanDisk/Boy Genius Report

Compared to conventional spinning-platter hard disk drives, solid state drives are faster, more reliable, have lower power consumption while generating less heat. They are particularly suited to use in laptops.

Given the above, why haven’t they completely replaced mechanical drives?

Cost.

SanDisk claims they are about to fix that with their new Z400s line of solid state drives, which will be available at prices competitive with mechanical drives.

http://bgr.com/2015/05/27/sandisk-z400s-ssd-price-hdd/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9279/sandisk-releases-z400s-ssd-for-mainstream-pcs-embedded-applications

http://liliputing.com/2015/05/sandisk-introduces-z400s-ssd-promises-hard-drive-like-prices.html / solid-state drive SSD increase performance computer compared regular hard disk drive HDD flash memory affordable option SanDisk announced SSDs affordable regular HDD SanDisk Z400s cost effective SSD device 20 times faster consume 20 times less power five times better reliability SanDisk Z400s multiple formats mSATA 2.5-inch SATA M.2 2242 2280 various capacities 32GB 64GB 128GB 256GB Z400s sequential read write speeds 549MB/s 330MB/ random read and write speeds 33K 62K IOPS Z400s commercially available SanDisk sample sampling customers pricing details SSDs OEMs initially laptops mobile portable devices flash storage conventional HDDs /