Aluratek 48 GB Filemate Solid State Drive ExpressCard AWSSDE48F

by Aluratek

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002K1ZW50
• Item model number: AWSSDE48F
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

If you are looking for an easy way to expand your laptops storage capacity while boasting blazing fast read and write speeds you will love the new SSD express card from Aluratek. Simply insert the SSD Express card into your computers Express Card slot and your laptop will automatically recognize there has been additional storage capacity added. This is a practical alternative solution to carrying around a portable external hard drive which could be lost, dropped or broken.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If only it would work reliably or lasted more than a month., November 26, 2009

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S. Gresham "Symonty" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aluratek 48 GB Filemate Solid State Drive ExpressCard AWSSDE48F (Personal Computers)

I bought this to supplement my MBP SSD 2565GB drive and use the empty slot for something useful.

When it is good it is VERY VERY good, but when it is bad it DEAD to me.

I am now on my Third, and will try the fourth for good measure.

First one:
Worked perfectly for 29 days, then dismounted and all data lost.

Second One:
Works great but any file copy which takes more than 2 minutes ( Apx 8gb ) the card just dismounts, no data loss.

Third one:
Copies round 50MB then pauses for 30 secs.

Amazon as always saves the day with there return policy so I will persevere.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Working fine for me..., May 30, 2010

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David Cross (WI, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aluratek 48 GB Filemate Solid State Drive ExpressCard AWSSDE48F (Personal Computers)

Just a quick note after seeing the other review. I've been on my first one of these for some months, and have had none of the problems described from above. I'm doing a lot less writing and a lot more reading though. (Toshiba Satellite L305)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for running Virtual HD for Parallels - with Windows XP modification, October 21, 2010

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Martin - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Aluratek 48 GB Filemate Solid State Drive ExpressCard AWSSDE48F (Personal Computers)

Hello Everyone,

I purchased this item to store the Virtual HD image for my Windows XP Pro installation that I am using in conjunction with Parallels 6 on a MacBook Pro. First impression was great. I copied the virtual HD image on to the card and it went truly fast. Very nice transfer speed.

Then I booted up the Windows XP Pro OS under Parallels and the OS literally came to a crawl. It was slow as molasses and had periodic time outs. So I started looking and found several interesting posts about running Windows XP (Pro) from a SSD. Turns out that XP does not like the paging (virtual memory) due to countless small file writes. There are a few other things that should be changed and edited. I followed many of the suggestions including disabling the virtual memory paging, indexing, modified the prefetch setting from 3 to 1.

Now it is running faster than before from this little SSD express card drive. Very nice product. Glad I got it. And it makes good use of the Express Card slot on my MBP.

Martin