Stefan Mileschin

While most SSD manufacturers are likely holding their product announcements until Computex next month, SanDisk has today announced a new model to their business SSD portfolio: the X300s. Most manufacturers tend to have just two lineups, one for the clients and the other for enterprise, but it's not unheard of for manufacturers to include a third, business-oriented lineup as well. SanDisk has been doing this for quite some time now and Kingston is doing it with their KC300 series.

Even though most business-oriented SSDs are just derivatives of client models, the idea behind the separation of the two is that businesses tend to require a more sophisticated feature set, which the manufacturers use to cash in. The manufacturers know that features like hardware encryption are vital in business use but not in average consumer use, so by limiting some features to business models the manufacturers are able to make an extra profit. Obviously not all manufacturers do this, for instance Crucial and Samsung have decided to not have a separate business lineup and has improved their client drives instead, but SanDisk's strategy is to have the business drives as their own entity.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8016/s...ces-x300s-ssds