Products

Only 5 mm in height, light and power efficient, SanDisk C18-G3 SSD is the ideal storage solution for thin, light and ultra mobile laptops. With 1.8" standard form factor, SATA II interface and up to 240 gigabytes (GB)* of flash memory, SanDisk C18-G3 SSD serves business executives and consumers. SanDisk G3 SSD is an important milestone in mass adoption of the solid state drive in the fast growing mobile PC arena.

SanDisk G3 SSDs mean greater speed:
Users of PC applications equipped with SanDisk G3 SSDs will notice the significant difference from the moment they power up their machines. The great speed manifests itself in a number of ways: reading and writing data, booting the operating system and launching applications. Not only do users of laptops with SanDisk G3 SSDs get started faster, they keep going in the same way.
SanDisk G3 SSDs stand to get five times as fast as the fastest 7,200 RPM HDDs, clocking in at up to 40,000 vRPM^(2,5) and anticipated sequential performance of 200 MB/s read and 140 MB/s write⁴. Three key features developed by SanDisk enable this exciting performance: ExtremeFFSTM, a new SSD algorithm, allows random write performance to potentially improve by as much as 100 times over conventional algorithms; reliable 43 nm multi-level cell (MLC) all bit-line (ABL) NAND flash; and SanDisk's new SSD controller, which ties together the NAND and the algorithm.

SanDisk G3 SSDs mean improved reliability:
In the area of laptops and laptop reliability, hard disk drive failure is the most common and, potentially, the most serious of all problems. As the component that stores the business and personal data, the storage device is of particular importance. If the data it contains hasn't been backed up, failure can mean more than the financial cost of repairing the system. It can mean lost time and productivity as well as intangible costs associated with inaccessible data that can negatively affect business operation.
With this in mind, SanDisk G3 SSDs are ideal storage solutions for mobile end users and others who rely heavily on the data they keep in their laptops because:
 

• SanDisk G3 SSDs offer mean time to failure (MTTF)1 rates of up to 6 times higher than those of rotating HDDs^(1,5).
• They have no moving parts, so SanDisk G3 SSDs are especially durable. Rated to perform at 40 times the shock levels of HDDs⁵.
• SanDisk G3 SSDs provide a Long-term Data Endurance (LDE) (link to Technology and metrics page) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for the 240 GB version, sufficient for over 100 years of typical user usage.³

Exceptional reliability like this results in fewer system repairs, which leads to reduced IT costs and a better total cost of ownership (TCO).

SanDisk G3 SSDs mean smaller and lighter:
lighter weight and a thinner profile — for ultra-light, ultra-thin notebook designs. For end users who are looking for the thinnest, lightest system configurations, SanDisk C18-G3 SSDs are the best choice to keep the system weight low with a sleek, slim profile.
SanDisk C18-G3 SSDs weigh as little as 44 grams or about a third of the weight of a 1.8" HDD7. This represents a 5% reduction in the weight of a typical subnotebook system.

SanDisk G3 SSDs: Backed by a legacy of global innovation:
SanDisk has a 20-year legacy of transforming industries by creating powerful new technologies that have revolutionised the world of consumer electronics.
SanDisk products empower thousands of products by hundreds of global manufacturers to deliver better end-user experiences. SanDisk is a trusted leader in flash memory.

* 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions and is, therefore, not available for data storage. Read more.

[1] MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) up to 2M hours, based on ongoing SanDisk reliability tests. The MTTF calculation does not take into account the disk endurance limitation.
[2] vRPM (virtual Revolutions Per Minute) — SanDisk's newly introduced industry metric to evaluate the performance of SSDs vs. hard disk drives (HDDs) and other SSDs. vRPM answers the question of how fast a HDD would have to spin in order to deliver the same performance as a SSD drive in a client PC. vRPM = 50 / ((0.5 / 4kB random read IOPS) + 0.5 / 4kB random write IOPS)).
[3] LDE (Long-term Data Endurance) — a new industry metric, recently introduced by SanDisk, that quantifies how much data can be written to an SSD in its lifespan expressed in terabytes written (TBW). Data is written using typical PC transfer size pareto, written at a constant rate over the life of the SSD and data is retained for at least 1 year upon LDE exhaustion. Based on SanDisk internal measurements, as typical client PC user writes 4 GB/day.
[4] SanDisk C25-G3 and C18-G3 SSD Performance: anticipated performance based on SanDisk internal estimates and projections. Performance is characterised using some or all of the following tools: H2BENCH 3.6 and IOMETER 2003.12.16
[5] HDD ST9120823AS, 7200 RPM SATA 2.5'' based on published specifications and SanDisk internal characterisations.