Posted on Thursday, May 28 2009 @ 18:33 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Super Talent has presented a series of solid state disk upgrades for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook, with capacities ranging between 16GB/32GB for the the Half Mini 2 PCIe SSDs and 64GB/128GB for the Double Wide Half Mini 2 PCIe SSDs. Details about the performance are slim, Super Talent only states the Double Wide Half Mini 2 version offers up to 80MB/s.
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, adds to the broadest SSD portfolio in the industry by introducing faster and larger capacity upgrade modules for the Dell® Inspiron® Mini 9 netbook PC. The modules come in two form factors, the standard Half Mini PCIe form factor and Super Talent's innovative Double Wide Half Mini PCIe form factor. Both families of products feature a custom IDE/PATA interface used in the Mini 9 netbook.
"For the first time ever Mini 9 users can upgrade their netbooks with a high performance 128GB SSD without any case modifications. We installed the hardware in less than 60 seconds and reinstalled the operating system in less than 30 minutes. We started thinking about how we could better solve our customers' problems, when we saw them posting videos online sawing their case apart to put in larger SSDs. So we innovated and invented the Double Wide Half Mini PCIe form factor to make upgrading to a high capacity SSD a whole lot easier."
In Super Talent's internal benchmark testing the Super Talent SSDs outperformed the stock SSD in sequential write speed by an impressive 7 to 1, showed a 2x performance gain in sequential read speed, and a 5.4x gain in random write speed. These products are available with both SLC and MLC flash.
Pictured below is a Double Wide Half Mini 2 PCIe SSD:
