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SanDisk Solid State Drives
Ralf Jurrien : October 1st 2007 - 13:47 CET
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 SanDisk Solid State Drives : SanDisk Corporation announced that it will offer its line of solid-state drives (SSD) for resale to the system integrator community through select US-based distribution partners. The move comes after a successful OEM launch last spring of SanDisk’s 32-gigabyte (GB)1, 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) interface model, which is compatible with most mainstream notebook designs.The SanDisk 2.5-inch SSD fits in the same internal slot as 2.5-inch hard drives. Now, the distribution channel that resells integrated systems with solid-state drives, or stand-alone units, to system builders will be able to offer the durability, performance and low power consumption of solid-state flash memory to their customers.
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 SanDisk SSD
“System integrators will now have the ability to offer the SanDisk SSD as part of their solution and bring it to their customer base,” said Scott Deutsch, vice president of worldwide sales for SanDisk’s Computing Solutions Division. “As a result, this will make SSD-based systems available to large enterprises and small-to-medium businesses that choose to take advantage of SSD over the typical hard disk drives.”
SanDisk system integrator community distribution partners
Initially, SanDisk has named Ingram Micro Inc., D&H Distributing and Bell Microproducts as US distribution partners to sell into the system integrator community, with shipments of the 32GB units expected to start in October. SanDisk plans to broaden distribution in the US and into Europe during the first quarter of 2008 to accommodate expected increases in demand for SSDs as hard drive replacements.
SanDisk Solid State Drives - OEM distributors
This new distribution represents a deeper penetration by SanDisk into the OEM and distribution channel by partnering with these leading broad line technology distributors. Until now, SanDisk SSDs have been available through its OEM distributors for various OEM applications including industrial, embedded and computing solutions.
Notebook PC OEMs
“Mainstream notebook PC OEMs are beginning to feature the performance and high reliability benefits of solid-state drives as drop-in replacements for hard disk drives,” said Jeff Janukowicz, a research manager in IDC's Storage Group. “With SanDisk’s expansion of sales through the distribution channel, systems integrators and white box manufacturers will gain easy access to Solid State Drives, enabling further market adoption.”
SanDisk
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the US.
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