SanDisk has announced the uSSD 5000 solid state drive (SSD), which can be used as an economical substitute for hard disk drives in PCs. SanDisk?s uSSD 5000 solid state drive is a USB module designed to be embedded directly onto the motherboard of low-cost PCs as a hard disk replacement. The uSSD 5000 solid state drive supports a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Embedded, Windows Embedded for Point of Service and Windows CE, as well as Linux.

Expected to be available in capacities from 2 GB to 8 GB. At 27mm x 38mm, uSSD 5000 solid state drives are about one-fourth the size of 1.8-inch hard disk drives.

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