I’ve seen some interesting offers, but SanDisk just took the prize. The company just launched a program called STAR, or “SanDisk Tech-Assisted Refresh.” It’s a program to help IT departments upgrade their notebook PCs by replacing the hard disks with SSDs.

SanDisk says that through the STAR program, it will relieve IT departments of having to manage all aspects of upgrading corporate laptops, by handling “endpoint inventory analysis, employee service scheduling, system upgrades, data migration, daily progress reporting, post-upgrade analysis and support.”

SSD analyst Jim Handy notes that this is not a new idea. Back in 2010, Kingston Technology hosted 500 events in different cities where CIOs were invited to bring a corporate laptop to a reception and have its HDD swapped out for an SSD. Then, a week or two later, Kingston approached them again and asked if they wanted to perform the same swap for the company’s entire fleet of PCs, and most CIOs took that offer, resulting in a whole lot of sales for Kingston that year.

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