The classic Eee PC 901 is really a great Asus netbook if only it’s 16GB SSD drive has a bit more storage capacity. For our friends in Japan, Buffalo has done them a good favor by releasing a 32GB and 64GB SSDs which our Japanese friends can use for their Eee PC 901.  Those higher capacity SSDs are not your usual upgrades that you put inside your machine though. Rather, both SSDs external drives encased in hdd enclosures similar to your regular external IDE hard drives.

To get the 32GB or 64GB SSDs, users have to purchase them together with the enclosure and plug it into your Eee PC 901’s USB port.  It will then replace your Eee PC’s current 16GB SSD sitting inside the machine.

Buffalo Japan has released an external SSD case specifically for the ASUS Eee PC 901-16G (16GB SSD) which runs like a portable external drive that you plug into a USB drive.

These Buffalo SSDs will be available  for around $129 for the 32GB and $228 for the 64GB in Japan in April.

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Good news for netbook users with the need for a larger sized storage facility – Toshiba will soon be launching a range of solid state drives that can offer you between 8GB and 32GB of storage and read/write speeds of 80MB/sec and 50MB/sec respectively. There will also be a 2.5 inch notebook version with 256GB of storage and read/write speeds of 120MB/sec and 70MB/sec.

Exact release dates and pricing details are unknown but, expect a release towards the end of the year and more information as it comes in.

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Solid State Devices or SSD Drives are used to have the flash performance of SanDisk but at a competitive price, for customers who need high-capacity storage. According to the Eee PC News, the SSD are now being excluded from the “MyDigitalSSD” due to some reason. These devices are very much friendly with the new Eee PC 901, where you an easily replace your old SSD drives.

SanDisk Vaulter™ is expected to release its SSD drive of 8GB and 16GB by the September. Buffalo has been reported to be working on 32GB and 64GB PCI-E SSD. As per Engadget, the 32GB SSD Drive will be priced around 157 USD and the 64GB SSD Drive will be priced around 313 USD.

Ya, its also a matter to think when you are getting a computer at the price of a SSD Device. But still it is going to have advanced benefits for Eee PC users, who always need extra disk space.