Active Media Products Announces SaberTooth ZX 1.8-Inch PATA ZIF SSDs
Active Media Products, the maker of SSD and WWF series USB drives announced today it’s new release, the SaberTooth ZX series of 1.8-inch PATA ZIF SSDs. The new SSD is ideal for upgrading netbooks such as the Dell Inspiron, Mini 12, Sony Vaio, and so on.
The ZX series supports sequential read speeds up to 80MB/sec and sequential write speeds up to 38MB/sec. The company’s selling pitch is that these new SSDs deliver double or triple the performance of the standard default HD’s in most netbooks, resulting in a much faster boot-up, application load and shutdown speeds.
The SaberTooth ZX Measures in at 70 x 54 x 5 mm, the physical specs are about the same as a 1.8-inch HDDs. It uses a parallel ATA (PATA / IDE) ZIF interface, and supports PIO mode 6 and Ultra DMA mode 6.
Active Media Products says the CoSaberTooth ZX is compatible with majority of netbooks that use 1.8″ PATA ZIF hard drives. It’s a fast and easy way to upgrade a netbook or UMPC for better performance and more local storage.
The company claims that if you upgrade to SaberTooth SSDs, the advantages over default HDDs will include:
- Substantially faster boot-up and application load speeds compared to default netbook HDDs;
- Consume far less power than HDDs, which means you’ll enjoy longer battery life and greater productivity;
- Lighter weight than an HDD;
- No moving parts;
- Completely silent operation;
- Produce less heat than an HDD;
- More rugged and reliable than an HDD.
According to Vice President of Sales at Active Media Products, Jerry Thomson, “Our new SSD selector guide makes it a breeze for users to find the best SSD for their mini PCs. It may be the web’s most complete netbook SSD upgrade guide, and lists a few dozen netbook models that are compatible with the new SaberTooth ZX”.
The ZX’s SMI controller includes ECC, wear leveling and bad bit management technologies to improve reliability and extend the life of the drive. You can purchase the 32GB and 64GB SaberTooth ZX SSDs starting today through Amazon for $99 and $160 respectively.
