new tiny sandisk ssd

[farlo]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/203601/sandisk_reveals_the_ssd_perfect_for_mobile_computi ng_its_smaller_than_a_postage_stamp.html

interesting

[x88x]

Nice speeds on that! It sounds great for smartphones and other similar small devices.

[artoodeeto]

Not to mention laptops - put 10 to 20 of these little guys in at 64GB each, they'd probably take up a lot less space than even a standard SSD...
And heck, the current PCI-e SSDs are on extended-sized cards. with these little guys you could fit a ton onto a standard size card...man I can't wait til this tech matures more :)

[x88x]

:eek: Oh! I misread the article when I look at it yesterday; I thought it said 4-6GB, not 4-64GB! Wow! Yeah, let's get, say, 4 of those on a full-size mini-PCIe with an integrated RAID controller. ..heheh, or in the desktop market...well, let's just say the cards can be a lot bigger. :twisted:

[BuzzKillington]

Bill Gates ran away when he thought of the price of a 64gig iSSD. Hopefully this means SSD's will drop to a bearable price.

[x88x]

:? :? Huh?

[Konrad]

My children will look at my ridiculously puny flash storage devices and exclaim something like "why is it so huge? does it hold like 1000 petabytes?"

[x88x]

Heheh, yup. The biggest (physically) HDD I've ever had was a 5.25" 'half-height' (in the original meaning, ie, it fills one 5.25" bay instead of 2), 2 platter drive that held all of 10MB. :D I got it second hand when my grandfather gave us his old computer, but I can only imagine when he got it the thing must have been insanely expensive.