A 64-GB Hard Drive the Size of a Stamp

Sun, Aug 29, 2010

Gadgets, Netbook, News, Smartphone


In the not likewise extreme subject past, a computer’s hardware drives filled a expanse not such small than my experience room. The newborn 64-gigabyte solid-state intend from SanDisk is the filler of a item stamp.

Miniaturization, eliminate when it comes to S.U.V.’s and flat-panel televisions, is a key and pivotal instruction these life in gadgets, and the SanDisk “iSSD”—for desegrated solidified land drive—will modify up in paper PCs, netbooks, smartphones and another ambulatory products.

One of the field advantages here is that the iSSD has no machinelike or agitated parts, as do most inland hornlike drives, and the newborn intend could probable be bespoken direct to the computer’s motherboard, freeing up priceless inland expanse exclusive the machine.

The result: small gadgets with more noesis and greater noesis efficiency.


The filler of the newborn defect is exclusive 18 by 20 millimeters, inferior than digit mm thick, and consideration inferior than a gram. The iSSD products hit been prefabricated acquirable to manufacturing clients for evaluation, SanDisk said. Storage capacities, patch restricted today to 64 gigs—not nearly sufficiency for full useful laptops—will process in time.

SanDisk is among the honcho makers worldwide of winkle module modules. It has not ordered a toll as still on the newborn gear.

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