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At the recent Denali MemCon 2009, Flash Marketing Manager Brian Beard told the audience how amid general market turmoil, Solid State Drives are delivering impressive growth rates. The many advantages of these flash storage devices like superior performance, low power, low heat and ruggedness are accompanied by low Total Cost of Ownership figures, thus moving SSDs into new markets.
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This recently published article explains how 2009 is becoming a turning point for the adoption of SSDs. Now moving into the mainstream, these storage devices are outpacing predictions for adoption in notebooks and netbooks, while they are also being used in other applications such as servers, desktops and rugged industrial solutions. A combination of falling hardware costs and greater awareness of the advantages of SDDs over traditional storage - such as greater durability, more reliability, no noise and higher performance - is helping fuel the quick proliferation of SDDs.
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