CDW to Sell Industry-Leading Crucial(TM) Solid State Drives (SSD).Lexar Media and CDW CDW - data warehouse Extend Product Offering to Include Flash-Based Hard Drive Alternative FREMONT, Calif. -- Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced that its line of Crucial solid state drives (SSD See solid state disk. ) are now available at CDW, a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education. Crucial SSDs are more durable, require less power, and offer greater overall system performance than traditional hard disk drives. Crucial SSDs will be available in capacities of 32GB and 64GB in an industry standard 2.5-inch drive enclosure See HDD cradle. with an industry-leading native SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. 3.0Gb/s interface, and CDW will offer both the 32GB and 64GB Crucial SSD products. To purchase Crucial SSDs at CDW, visit www.cdw.com/crucial. "Lexar Media is proud to be associated with CDW, and we have a long, successful history together," said Dave Elledge, director of sales at Lexar Media. "CDW enables us to reach our target customers for each of our many product lines, including DRAM, memory cards, USB flash drives See USB drive. , and now SSDs." "CDW welcomes the addition of Lexar Media's line of Crucial SSDs to our portfolio of data storage offerings," said Matthew A. Troka, vice president of product and partner management at CDW. "We're constantly seeking new ways to help customers achieve increased system performance and to make the most of their technology investments. The flash-based technology and compact design of Crucial SSDs, enables CDW to offer additional performance improving alternatives to traditional hard drives." Additionally, CDW will offer the Crucial SK01 external drive kit (sold separately), a device that delivers the benefits of SSD technology to a user's desktop and beyond. The innovative SK01 kit allows users to enjoy SSD technology installed in their desktop or as a portable storage device via a USB port A USB socket on a computer or peripheral device into which a USB cable is plugged. See USB. . About Lexar Media Lexar Media is a leading marketer and manufacturer of NAND flash See flash memory. and DRAM memory products under the Lexar and Crucial brand names. Lexar Media also sells flash memory products under the Kodak brand. For more information about Lexar Media, visit www.lexar.com. For more information about Crucial products, visit www.crucial.com, www.crucial.com/uk or www.crucial.com/eu. Lexar Media, Inc. is a subsidiary of Micron Technology Micron Technology ("Micron") NYSE: MU is a multinational company based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices. This includes DRAM, SDRAM, flash memory, and CMOS image sensing chips. , Inc., and Lexar Media is a division of Micron Europe Limited, a division of Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte. Ltd., and a division of Micron Japan, Ltd. About Micron Technology, Inc. Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations, Micron manufactures and markets DRAMs, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors, other semiconductor components, and memory modules for use in leading-edge computing, consumer, networking and mobile products. Micron's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ) under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com. (c) 2008 Lexar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Information is subject to change without notice. Lexar and the Lexar logo are trademarks of Lexar Media, Inc. Micron, Crucial, and the Crucial logo are trademarks of Micron Technology, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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