SanDisk announces that the new G3 Solid State Drive has begun shipping to retailers in North America and Europe. The G3 SSD is available in two capacities – a 60GB drive for $229.99 and a 120GB drive for $399.99.

Features of the drive include:

• High durability – designed to withstand shocks and vibrations
• Open, close, or boot-up files up to 2x as fast as 7200RPM HDD
• Read speeds up to 220MB/sec
• Write speeds up to 120MB/sec
• ExtremeFFS technology which can accelerate random write performance thereby extending the endurance of drives inside PCs running Windows
• Lower power consumption

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