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Sandisk Debuts World's Smallest SSD Yet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the itty-bitty-bits dept.

siliconbits writes "Weighing less than a paper clip and smaller than a postage stamp, Sandisk's iSSD comes in a tiny Ball Grid Array and boasts support for the SATA standard, which means that it can be soldered directly on motherboards."

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  1. mini-itx by petermgreen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder if anyone will build a mini-itx board with one of these on? IDE is on it's way out and while you can get SATA disk on moudules a largish lump hanging out of a flimsy sata port doesn't seem like a very robust soloution. A board with one of these on would mean all you would need to add is ram to make a fully functional embedded PC.

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  2. Possible Applications by dmgxmichael · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Possible Applications of 64 GB integrated into the motherboard.

    1. BIOS
    2. Hypervisor
    3. Drivers

    And that's right off the top of my head.

  3. Re:Make them cheaper, not smaller by petermgreen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want a fast disk for my workstation/server.
    In a desktop you can put in a SSD as your OS drive (which is where most random access takes place afaict) and keep a spinner for your data. Doing this is already reasonablly affordable.

    However if you want a laptop with a SSD at the moment you have to either choose a SSD that can store everything you want on the laptop (which if you store a lot on your laptop means $$$), go for a monster size machine or sacrifice the optical drive (and pick your laptop from the very limited choice of machines that support replacing the optical drive with a hard drive).

    With this a laptop vendor can put the SSD on the motherboard while having negligable impact on the rest of the machine.

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  4. Re:That's a great idea! by gbjbaanb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    yes, but after a few months of windows updates (and the storage of all them, and the old files they replace being stuck in WinSxS) you'll have a 10Gb space left.

    I initially installed windows 7 in a 25Gb partition thinking 'no-one needs that much'. Then I found it got quite tight for space, so I increased it to 30Gb. Now I find its quite tight for space (2.2Gb free out of 29.2Gb). So I guess I'll have to increase it again.

    I wouldn't mind so much, but its obviously full of crap - as I install apps (especially big ones) mostly to my D drive to keep the OS backups small. At least its leaner than Vista was!