Lenovo X301 to ship with 128GB SSD as option?

The x-series x301 from Lenovo, is rumored to be shipping with a 128GB Solid State Hard Drive (SSHD) . Which is double the current 300 series SSHD at 64GB.

Solid State Drives like Compact flash, are making the ultra portable laptops, lighter and extremely power conscious. The pro's of SSD hard drives out weight most users usage types than do the con's. The reason for this is a that the con's of a SSD drive is that it's expensive, and that it has lower write access cycles than a conventional hard disk. Pro's of an SSD hard drive. Well the seek times are faster for file io, fragmentation of files does not slow performance and the failure rate is a fraction of normal drives due to the elimination of the moving parts. The biggest plus for mobile computing using an SSD is the it's light weight and draws a fraction of normal power consumption on the 3 Cell LiPolymer Bay Battery.

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