California's own Active Media Products has now introduced the SaberTooth S4 family of Mini PCIe solid state drives for SATA-based Asus Eee PC 900, 900A, 901 and 1000 models. The new SSDs come in 16, 32 and 64GB capacities and feature MLC (multi-level cell) NAND flash memory chips, a Jmicron JMF602B controller, sequential read/write speeds of up to 130/50 MB/s, plus a one-year warranty.

"We optimized the SaberTooth S4 for exceptional read performance", explained Active Media Products Vice President of Sales, Jerry Thomson. "But it also runs circles around the default SSD in write speeds, scoring about 2X faster than the default SSD in write tests."

The 16, 32 and 64GB SaberTooth S4 SSDs can now be purchased from Amazon at launch promotion prices of $49.95, $79.95 and $135.95, respectively.