NanoSSD Plugs Directly Into SATA Slot

[ohim]

welcome motherboards with integrated drive for OS ?

 

[ohim]

not to forget all drivers and aplications that come bundled with a Mobo

 

[caskachan]

Great, someone foudn a way to sell ,unsold fist generation ssd memories+ newer interface controler

wake me up when 8-16gb 200bm read write stuff liek this pops up, that will be worth it

 

[zelannii]

OK, good idea, bad implementation, poor performance...

What they should have done instead was simply have you connect it to the molex connector, and use a very short SATA cable to connect it to the board. Strapping a small SDD to your cable bundle is a better idea than leaving a leverage point sticking up out of a cheap plastic SDD slot, those connectors are not designed to handle stresses of having a compponent sticking out of them like that, and they're too small to properly accomodate a drive without blocking ports...

Further, with Visat, anything less than a 64GB main drive is dumb. I though a 32GB partition would be fine, nearly double what I used for XP. Afterall the install was only slightly bigger. Nope, Vista puts so much crap opn C: in hidden directories, that over time, it grows DRAMATICALLY. Some of it can be moved, but it;s a real pain, and many applications don;t like it.

For Linux, sure, 8-16GB might be fine, even OS X would run nice in a 16-32GB partition, likely XP too, but it's too small, too expensive, blocks ports, and worst of all doesn't actually offer a dramatic performance advantage...

If they were thinking diagnostics, it should have been an esata drive...

 

[theholylancer]

err how does it get power? I thought that the SATA port isn't powered.

 

[theholylancer]

[citation][nom]amnotanoobie[/nom]They provided an extra molex connector. http://www.elecom.co.jp/news/20090 [...] SAA_31.jpgIt is much more ideal either for troubleshooting, or 24/7 ITX boxes (it'd be much more durable, produce less heat, consume less electricity than the hdisk in the long run).[/citation]
o that's gay.... the adapter is bigger than the damned drive!!

 

[utdgrad2005]

http://www.itechnews.net/2009/06/05/innodisk-128gb-nanossd/

This is a look at a prototype 128gb w/ 160 write and 150 read. Maybe a petition for newegg to pick this line up when it ready is in order.

 

[Guest]

Hmm I hope they will work on E-SATA... useful for laptops that have E-SATA ports but its basically same as a USB key, for desktops its nice to add some extra storage if needed, maybe use the SSD as a download folder before transfering over to regular hdd

 

[sublifer]

[citation][nom]amnotanoobie[/nom]They provided an extra molex connector. http://www.elecom.co.jp/news/20090 [...] SAA_31.jpgIt is much more ideal either for troubleshooting, or 24/7 ITX boxes (it'd be much more durable, produce less heat, consume less electricity than the hdisk in the long run).[/citation]
Great find but it really kinda ruins it.... add it in for compactness and reduced clutter then add in a big molex adapter to increase clutter around the mb again... shucks.

 

[tipoo]

I think a mouse would be quite a bit louder than it, actually.

 

[Kaiser_25]

[citation][nom]utdgrad2005[/nom]http://www.itechnews.net/2009/06/0 [...] b-nanossd/This is a look at a prototype 128gb w/ 160 write and 150 read. Maybe a petition for newegg to pick this line up when it ready is in order.[/citation]

That looks perfect, hi speed, low profile, that is a perfect example of what the consumer wants!!!

 

[hemelskonijn]

It is capable of running without an external power source however result might differ and thus they provide a molex adapter to be sure it will run in any system.

 

[dark_lord69]

[citation][nom]leafblower29[/nom]It would interesting to RAID these. I think these might catch on.[/citation]

Ya, if they're cheap.

 

[Guest]

Ahh, and so cute too. Kind of cool if its big enough to hold windows and all of your start up programs. Should make booting up super quick.

 

[Guest]

Ohim, great idea on the integrated OS bootdrive. That would definitely be a big selling point for me, and probably save a ton of electricity for people not wanting to shut off their pc's because of the long boot times.

 

[matt87_50]

[citation][nom]bulldoza99[/nom]good call on the power issue.In regards to the size of it- you could just put a sata cable on it if you had issues with its size - but these wouldnt really have a good market in pcs with lots of sata devices anyway- more for miniatx boards and internet cafe style systems.[/citation]

actually, I think there might be a problem with this? sata cables have the same connection on each end (lets say male) which means both the drive and the board also have the same connector (so female). in order for the drive to plug directly into the board, the board and the drive must have different gender plugs, which means the standard same gender cable won't work?

I agree tho, I think if you need to use neighboring sata ports, your probably don't need a small drive like this anyway, tho that still leaves the problem of clearance, itx pcs are pretty compact, and you might need the flexibility of a cable to get it out the way of all the cards and other stuff.