After introducing its Cruzer Titanium Plus USB Drive and Cruzer Micro 8GB, SanDisk has unveiled a few more more products in CES 2008, e.g. the SATA solid state drive (SSD) 5000 with 72GB storage capacity, and SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire USB flash drive. The SATA SSD 5000 is a slimmed-down 1.8-inch Serial ATA (SATA II) model, it is aimed at a new generation of ultralight notebooks. Designed to be a drop-in replacement for hard disk drives, the new SATA drive is just 5mm thick and weighs 40 grams ? about 30 percent less than a same-size hard disk drive. It uses a SATA II interface, and consumes only 0.85 watts in read/write mode and 0.2W when idle. The SanDisk SSD SATA 1.8-inch 5000 offers a sustained read rate of 66 MB/sec, a random read rate of over 7000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer ? more than 100 times faster than any hard disk drive, and an average file access rate of 0.1 milliseconds. The SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire USB flash drive is portable drive that lets you store PC game data, music and video, and any important documents on the go.


The new SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire USB 8GB model, with its black body and green trim on the cap, is expected to ship to retailers worldwide this quarter, at a suggested retail price of $129.99. As for solid state drive, it is expected to hit store in the second quarter of 2008 for an undisclosed price.

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