Better late than never. SanDisk has begun shipping its G3 solid-state disk drives to retailers in both North America and Europe, the company said on Tuesday.
The G3 ships in two capacity points: 60 and 120 Gbytes. The drives cost $229.99 and $399.99, respectively. Unfortunately, the drives have arrived more than a year after SanDisk announced them, and more than six months after they were originally supposed to ship.
According to SanDisk, the 120-Gbyte version of the drive can tolerate up to 80 terabytes of data being written to it over its lifetime. The drive contains SanDisk’s ExtremeFFS technology, “that
has
the potential to accelerate random write performance and thus
extend
the endurance of SanDisk G3 SSDs inside computers that use
operating
systems such as Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7,” the company said. They’re backed by a 10-year limited warranty.
A spokeswoman said the delay was due to a desire to “optimize” the
product, specifically the blockpage-based ExtremeFFS architecture, which
replaced SanDisk’s previous pageblock-based file system. The shift was a
“once-in-a-decade transition,” she said.
Performance-wise, the drives read data at 220 megabytes per second and write up to 120 MB/sec.
The drives support Macs and PCs (XP, Vista, and Windows 7) as well as Linux.
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