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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. Re:Make them cheaper, not smaller by jeffmeden · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Exactly. It would be pretty hard to make something that sells for less by ultimately putting more of [xyz] material in it... Making them smaller pretty directly leads to same-size price reduction. GP needs a -1, Whining mod created just for him.

  2. Re:Make them cheaper, not smaller by CarpetShark · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Did it ever occur to you that drive manufacturers and researchers work on all of those things, but don't magically make breakthroughs in a given area simply because a bunch of jackasses on slashdot want them to?

    No?