SanDisk G3 Solid State Drives start shipping

SanDisk has started to ship its G3 Solid State Drives (SSD) to folks living in North America and Europe, where the G3 is a very reasonable alternative to a 7,200 RPM hard drive, since it offers increased durability and performance with high reliability. This 120GB monster is capable of enduring up to 80TB of data written to it over its lifetime, and the use of a smart flash management system known as ExtremeFFS technology lets it accelerate random write performance, further extending the endurance of SanDisk G3 SSDs when in use with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7. Sequential performance of the SanDisk G3 SSD hits up to 220MB/s for read speeds and 120MB/s for write speeds. You can choose from 60GB and 120GB versions which are going for $229.99 and $399.99, respectively. [Press Release]