Alienware announced today it will include in its offer solid state drives for notebooks such as Area-51 m9750, Aurora m9700 and Area-51 m5550.

SSDs feature far greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. SSD can also improve battery life by up to 20 percent in notebooks.

Although, with no moving parts, the flash-based SSD starts working almost immediately to achieve far better access speeds than a conventional hard disk drive. For example, in notebook computers, data moves to and from an SSD more than 100 times faster than data moving to and from a hard disk.

Alienware said also that the Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 are first to market with a 64GB RAID 0 dual SSD configuration, while also offering dual drive options that combine a 32GB SSD and a 200GB 7,200 RPM storage drive.

“Alienware's new flash-based solid state drive solutions dramatically accelerate performance for mobile storage applications,” said Bryan de Zayas, Associate Director of Product Marketing at Alienware. “From blazing load times to rock-solid durability, all the essential features that customers look for in a notebook are maximized in Alienware mobile systems loaded with solid state drives.”

In June at the Computex Taipei 2007, First International Computer Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. showed prototype of ultra portables laptops.

At the same technical show SanDisk extended its line of solid state drive (SSD) products with the introduction of a 64-gigabyte (GB) SSD aimed at both enterprise users and early adopter consumers such as gamers.