SanDisk Reveals World's Smallest SSD, the 'iSSD'

[tokenz]

Screw the computers throw that in my damn phone.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

iCarumba!

 

[Guest]

I wasn't sure if the postage stamp size SSD had space in orders of MB's in magnitude or single GB's. But if you can have that postage stamped SSD in your tablet or netbook, and have 24, 32 or 64GB of space on it, you might call yourself a lucky guy!

Eventhough it has fast continuous speed, I wonder how it does on iops.
SDHC cards where the SSD's of 5 years ago, but they perform horrible for random operations.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

64GB's? Nice. =)

 

[killmenow]

Don't like the name, should be call the mini-SSD.
if they call it the iSSD, it would imply that it's for peple who don't understand technology.

 

[FloKid]

sounds like a new flash card lol

 

[Guest]

From a designer's standpoint, a reduction in the number of interfaces makes life a lot more simple.

 

[jonnyboyC]

I'm quite impressed with a max of 64 GB i was honestly thinking more like 8GB pretty much just a very fast usb drive

 

[dEAne]

problem was not most SSD is not really that affordable and constant write can ruin it.

 

[Guest]

This is nothing new! Since the days of ready boost in Vista, Intel was trying to get motherboard manufacturers to sodder on flash memory for faster booting. Also take into account that if this is put onto a MB then you will lose a SATA port and in 2-3 years this non-upgradable module will still be there but extremely slow by comparison with current SSG's at that time. If the made a pico SSD for very small devices that was upgradable like ram is in laptops then I would be impressed.

 

[jhregalado]

suitable for hand held / phone devices.. itsn't it?
what about its power consumption?

 

[tinnerdxp]

I think, I will start judging whether the articles on here are worth reading by ctrl+f for word "apple"... if I find ONE article without it - I will read it...

 

[danny69t]

[citation][nom]turbolover22[/nom]iSee that you did not begin your post with an "i". You have been penalized for not following the rules and must sit out a minimum of 3 news articles before you can post again.[/citation]
i Lolz, seriously now iHave to take a dump .

ontopic: i like the thing with this chips to be solderend to pc mobo's, for backup or OS like one guy said above. would be a good iDea.

 

[danny69t]

[citation][nom]wtp_31[/nom]This is nothing new! Since the days of ready boost in Vista, Intel was trying to get motherboard manufacturers to sodder on flash memory for faster booting. Also take into account that if this is put onto a MB then you will lose a SATA port and in 2-3 years this non-upgradable module will still be there but extremely slow by comparison with current SSG's at that time. If the made a pico SSD for very small devices that was upgradable like ram is in laptops then I would be impressed.[/citation]
i dont't thing they would put this on a cheap mobo, with idk 4 sata ports? just on the performance models for users who know what they have and how to use it. just some random thought.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]Ciuy[/nom]why does everything have to start with "i" nowadays/???[/citation]Waaaaaaaaah

 

[ik242]

time to make mini-RAID

 

[jsm6746]

that is the perfect size to fall down the front of that girls shirt...

 

[HavoCnMe]

I'll take 30 of those and with a side of RAID0 and.....hold the salt.

 

[Pyroflea]

This is great for tablets and smartphones. Say hello to a new Android phone with up to 64gb of memory...