New family of offerings feature world’s fastest
line-up of Type C-based portable SSDs
COMPUTEX 2015 — SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a
global leader in flash storage solutions, today entered the
portable SSD market with a family of high-performance drives,
including the SanDisk Extreme® 900 Portable SSDs, the world’s
fastest line of Type C-based portable SSDs; and the SanDisk Extreme
500 Portable SSDs, the company’s new pocket-sized, rugged drives.
The SanDisk Extreme 900 drives feature speeds of up to nine times
faster than a portable hard drive1, while the SanDisk Extreme 500
drives offer speeds up to four times faster1. These powerful
solutions are ideal for photographers, videographers, creative
professionals and tech enthusiasts looking to move massive files at
phenomenal speeds, helping them save time and simplify work
processes at the office or out in the field.
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SanDisk Extreme 500 and 900 Portable SSDs
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“As a recognized leader in developing solutions for professional
photographers and videographers, we designed this game-changing
family of offerings to provide our customers with even greater
speeds and capacities to keep up with rapidly increasing demands
for high-quality content,” said Dinesh Bahal, vice president,
product marketing, SanDisk. “Whether a professional or amateur,
this level of portability, speed and capacity is exceptional, and
we believe it will transform the way people create and produce high
quality video content—ultimately saving them time and money.”
World’s Highest-Performing, Next-Generation Portable
SSDs
The SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSDs are all about performance
and capacity. Available in up to 1.92TB*, the new drives features
transfer speeds nine times faster than a portable hard drive1,
giving users a significant advantage when they are working with 4K
video, taking detailed high-res photos or creating large graphics
files.
With its compact, durable aluminum case, professionals can take
the SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSD with them wherever they go,
allowing them to carry a massive digital portfolio they can access
and share in just seconds. With superfast speeds of up to
850MB/s**, the SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSD dramatically
reduces wait times, instantly accelerating user work flow
regardless of file size. These new drives come with both USB Type-C
and Type-A cables to provide the ultimate flexibility when working
between systems.
Pocket-sized, Yet Powerful
The SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD is less than half the size
of your smartphone and delivers more than four times the speed of a
portable hard drive1. The new pocket-sized drive allows users to
transfer big videos and photo libraries at up to 415MB/s**.
Available in up to 480GB* capacity, this light-weight yet durable
drive is a high-performance solution suitable for anyone looking
for a fast, reliable storage on the go. Designed for ultimate
portability and durability, the SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSDs
feature a sleek black finish with unique rubber bumpers, and a
metal ring that easily clips into a bag.
"We are now shooting with as many as twelve 4K cameras at once,
so on set I need the most reliable and cutting-edge technology
available to access, share and transfer enormous files. Every
minute counts when we are on location, so with these new,
extraordinarily fast, portable SSDs from SanDisk, I can spend less
time waiting on file transfer, and more time on creativity,” said
Sam Nicholson, CEO of Stargate Studios and member of the American
Society of Cinematographers.
Professional photographers and videographers around the world
turn to SanDisk to provide state-of-the art products. These new
portable SSDs are built to sustain the most rugged environments,
featuring both temperature and impact-resistant materials2, ideal
for many work environments. The new family of SanDisk Extreme
Portable SSDs also feature SanDisk SecureAccess™ software with
128-bit encryption to secure files3.
Pricing and Availability
The SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSDs will be available
worldwide in capacities of 120GB, 240GB and 480GB, at MSRPs of
$99.99, $149.99 and $239.99 respectively. The SanDisk Extreme 900
SSDs will be available worldwide in capacities of 480GB, 960GB and
1.92TB at MSRPs of $399.99, $599.99 and $999.99, respectively. Both
new SSD lines feature a three-year warranty4.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500
company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more
than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage,
providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the
electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art
solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data
centers, and embedded in advanced smartphones, tablets and PCs.
SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands
of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit
www.sandisk.com.
*1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. Actual
user storage less.
** Based on internal testing; performance may be lower depending
on drive capacity, host device, OS and application. 1MB=1,000,000
bytes.
1 As compared to 500GB portable hard drive based on internal
speed performance tests.
2 Shock resistant (up to 800G) and vibration resistant
(5.35gRMS, 50-2000 HZ), Temperature (from -200 C to +700)
3Password protection uses 128-bit AES encryption and is
supported by, Mac OS X v10.6+, Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 and
Windows 8.
4 see www.sandisk.com/wug
© 2015 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk and
SanDisk Extreme are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered
in the United States and other countries. SanDisk SecureAccess is a
trademark of SanDisk Corporation.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for technology and product performance,
capacities, availability, pricing, and security features that are
based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and
uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be
inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements
to be inaccurate include among others: our products may not be
available in the capacities or pricing that we expect, with the
features we expect or perform as expected, or the other risks
detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange
Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our
most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to
update the information contained in this news release.
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