A SOLID STATE drive using flash memory is being shown off at a storage show in the US next week. Sandisk said the 32GB drive, which isn't yet shipping in retail, will cost $600.

The firm rates it as yielding a mean time between failure (MTBF) of two million hours, has a sustained read rate of 62MB per sec and a random read rate of 7,000 inputs/outputs per second.

It claims it only consumes .4 watts compared to one watt for a regular HDD. The 1.8-inch drive is being made available to hardware OEMs now.

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