- Intel heeft, precies op tijd voor de feestdagen, de prijzen van zijn Solid State Drives (SSD’s) verlaagd en een nieuw model geïntroduceerd. SSD’s vervangen de traditionele harddisk en zorgen voor een aanzienlijke prestatieverbetering van desktop of notebook pc’s.
Company also adds 120GB version, giving holiday shoppers more choices for one of pcs’ hottest trends
- Intel Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are more affordable with new pricing in time for holidays
- SSDs replace hard drives for a rugged, low-power performance boost of up to 56 percent
- New Intel X25-M 120GB SSD, with a price of $239 for 1ku, can store operating system, favorite apps plus thousands of songs or photos
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 12, 2010 – Just in time for the holiday buying season, Intel Corporation has lowered prices and introduced a new model of its award-winning Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) product line. SSDs can replace hard disk drives in a PC and provide a substantial performance boost for a notebook or desktop PC, making SSDs one of the hottest new waves in personal computing.
For shoppers looking for the latest high-tech gadget for that intensive PC user or gamer, Intel SSDs can help improve overall system performance by up to 56 percent.* SSDs can replace or complement a traditional hard drive in a notebook or desktop PC and deliver noticeably faster computer performance when booting up, opening files and running software applications. With no moving parts, these SSDs deliver greater reliability and consume less power than conventional hard disk drives (HDDs).
“Every Christmas, consumers are looking for the latest tech gadget; this year, with prices dropping, the solid-state drive is becoming more mainstream and can make the single greatest improvement to PC performance,” said Troy Winslow, director of product marketing for the Intel NAND Solutions Group. “With an SSD, tech shoppers can give the gift of a technology makeover that will help speed up, or breathe new life, into a current PC by just swapping out the hard drive for an SSD.”
New 1000 units (1ku) pricing for the Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA SSD is now $179 for an 80 gigabyte (GB) drive, which provides plenty of space to store the operating system, multiple office and personal applications, as well as thousands of songs, photos, video and other data. Users can double the storage capacity with a 160GB X25-M drive for $399. The company has also added a new 120GB version of the Intel X25-M for $239, which offers the best dollar-per-GB value in the Intel X25-M SSD line.
An entry-level 40GB Intel X25-V “boot drive,” available at a price of $99, is another option for desktop users that allows the operating system and favorite applications to be installed on the SSD for faster performance, while keeping the HDD for further storage.
To begin enjoying the high-performance world of solid-state computing, users can install their own SSD, have a computer technician install it for them or purchase a brand new system from HP, Lenovo and others with an Intel SSD already pre-installed. To make the process of copying, or cloning data, from a user’s old hard drive to a speedy new Intel SSD, Intel also includes a free cloning utility called the Intel® Data Migration Software. The easy-to-use Intel Data Migration Software will help transfer information from the old hard drive, including operating systems, applications, documents and personal settings, in just minutes. It can be downloaded free of charge at
www.intel.com/go/ssdinstallation.
More information on Intel SSDs can be found at
www.intel.com/go/ssd or follow Intel SSDs on Twitter: intelssd, Facebook: Intel Solid State Drive (Official) or communities.intel.com or
www.intel.com/go/ssd.
Over Intel
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www.intel.com/pressroom en op
blogs.intel.com. Intel is ook te volgen viaTwitter:
twitter.com/intel.
Voor meer informatie:
Intel Benelux, George Alfs, Communicatie Manager, telefoon +32 (0)3 450 08 11,
e-mail:
george.alfs@intel.com, of
MCS BV, Perlita Fränkel, telefoon +31 (0)23 562 82 08,
e-mail:
perlitaf@monogram.nl.
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