Active Media Speedy SSD Upgrades For Dell Mini 9 Netbook

It might not quite match the 128GB SSD upgrade we saw performed on the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 back in April, but Active Media Products' SSD upgrade kit for the netbook is a whole lot more affordable.  Promising either 16GB or 32GB of capacity running at twice the speed of the Mini 9's standard storage, they promise to be a straightforward swap.

A half-mini PCIe card, the Active Media upgrade consists of MLC NAND flash and a Phison PATA-to-NAND controller.  ECC and wear leveling (where write cycles are made to different parts of the NAND memory so as to avoid overly wearing any particular point) are supported automatically.

Perhaps most importantly, they're fast, too.  Sequential read speed is up to 82MB per second, while sequential write speed is up to 38MB per second.  The 16GB kit has an MRSP of $65.95, while the 32GB kit is expected to come in at $119.95.