14 DAY TRIAL // Solid state drives, SSDs for short, are offering a number of important advantages over the traditional hard disk drives like lower energy footprint, higher data transferring speeds and increased reliability and even if they are now available only in smaller storage capacities and sporting higher price tags, some hardware manufacturing companies are already thinking about integrating those new devices into the business class of mobile computing devices.
Hewlett-Packard has just announced that it will offer its customers the possibility to purchase a 64GB solid state drive as an optional storage device for its line of business intended laptops which were launched earlier this month. According to the news site infoworld, a HP executive said that the models affected by this offering are from the HP Compaq 2710p, 2510p, 6910p, and 8000 series as well as some future line of products that are yet to be released.
Users that will opt for the solid state drive addition to the laptop hardware configuration will have to pay up to $1,000 more, but the manufacturing company expects that the production price of these device will go down as they gain more market acceptance and the demand for them goes up. One other advantage that is touted by HP in order to attract more customers for its SSD enabled line of business laptops is the fact that all machines sporting them will be with around 25 percent lighter.
While HP is one of the most important computer manufacturing companies around the world, it is not the first to launch such drives as the competing Dell and Alienware already have rolled out mobile computers that come with solid state drives as a means to enhance the access speed of the traditional hard disk drives.
The most important pioneer of the SSD storage devices remains Samsung Electronics that is perhaps the most important manufacturer of this kind of devices, while a number of traditional hard disk drive manufacturing companies like Seagate plans to go on a different route and integrate the two technologies in a single product.