SanDisk SSD 5000 manual Introduction, General Description, Key Features

1.Introduction

1.1General Description

SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 2.5" is designed to drive the shift of mobile PC users and blade server users from the hard disk drive to the solid state drive (SSD). A drop-in replacement for the hard disk drive, it delivers far superior durability, performance and power efficiency ─ keeping mobile PCs and blade servers working optimally in the toughest of conditions.

SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 2.5" (SanDisk SSD), with 8, 16, 32 and 64 gigabyte1 (GB) flash memory, is targeted at enterprise users as the first step in mass consumer adoption of the SSD in the mobile PC market.

With no moving parts, SanDisk SSD does not need to spin up into action or to seek files in the way that conventional hard disk drives do ─enabling SanDisk SSD to work much faster.

SanDisk, the industry leader in flash storage, is uniquely positioned to drive the paradigm shift in mobile computing to SSDs. Inside enterprise computers, such as the thin & light laptops and transportable laptops; SanDisk SSD delivers unbeatable durability, system performance and power efficiency.

This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following SanDisk SSD 5000 model drives:

1.2Key Features

High capacity in small form factor

o2.5" small form factor, supporting unformatted capacity of 8, 16, 32, 64GB

o9.5mm case height

oSATA 7+15 pins combo connector Interface to host

o Standards: SATA 1.0a 1.5Gb/s High performance

o Host transfer rate: 150MB/s

11 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus is not available for data storage.