Inexpensive Solid State Disk Upgrades for HP Mini Launch

PataZif-2bigActive Media is following up on its last SSD offering, which was for ASUS Eee PC netbooks. Today the company announced a new line of ZIF, or Zero Insertion Force, SSD flash drives specifically targeted at HP mini netbooks. These drives are sized at 1.8″ and use a PATA/IDE interface, so they should be relatively easy to install.

These drives are aimed at the HP Mini 1000, 1010NR, 1030NR and 2510P netbooks, Active Media says. Speeds aren’t the fastest we’ve seen, with sequential reads and writes up to 82MBps and 38MBps, respectively, but they’re still fairly reasonable. The price reflects those speeds, too, as they won’t break the bank. Street price of a 16GB drive is $70 and 32GB is $110.

That compares favorably with similar RunCore products, which are available for pre-order at $119.99 and $159.99 in the same capacity. RunCore will offer 64GB and 128GB capacities, and their combination of memory and controller offers double the write speeds. If budget is your primary requirement, the Action Media products might be a better fit, but when thinking speed, RunCore is worth the look.

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