SanDisk® VaulterDisk

Advanced Storage

High Performance with

 

 

System Solution

 

 

Parallel Transactions

 

 

Low Cost per GB

 

 

 

SanDisk® Vaulter™ Disk, a flash-based PCI Express (PCIe) module tucked away inside a consumer laptop, represents a new system approach to high- performance and high- capacity data storage. Enabled by predefined SanDisk software scripts, Vaulter Disk cleverly con- trols the distribution of

storage data between itself and a high-capacity hard disk drive (HDD). All personal data and program files are stored on the HDD, while in parallel the Windows operating system (OS) is stored on Vaulter Disk.

This unique storage concept transparently speeds up data retrieval for boot and application load operations, as well as for unexpected user access to new files.

Main Features and Benefits

High User Responsiveness

Vaulter Disk was designed with consumer laptop users in mind. It consistently boosts user responsive- ness by taking advantage of the best, native charac- teristics of the flash-based Vaulter Disk and the HDD. At the same time, it enables users to enjoy high- capacity HDD storage at a low cost per Gigabyte.

Vaulter Disk heightens user responsiveness when ran- domly accessing many small files. Users can feel the difference in speed both when performing repeated operations, such as opening frequently used applica- tions, as well as for unexpected behavior, such as retrieving new applications or entries on the Internet.

Enhanced Performance with

Parallel Transactions

Unlike caching solutions that are based on serial transactions, Vaulter Disk consistently boosts the speed of data retrieval using parallel transactions.

Vaulter Disk operates in parallel to the HDD to opti- mize data transfer to the host. Vaulter Disk handles small Read files, representing the majority of system file transfers. The HDD handles application files and user data.

When loading a typical application such as Microsoft® Word, for instance, Vaulter Disk reads the thousands of small OS kernel files while the HDD reads the hundreds of heavy program and data files. This parallel activity boosts Read performance by over 25% as compared with a HDD-only configuration.

High Reliability

SanDisk patented flash management technology brings top data reliability to Vaulter Disk, even during power loss.

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