Tiny “nanoSSD” SATA Drive
Elecom a company base in Japan has release a Tiny SSD drive which you can plug directly into the motherboard SATA port. Currently the drive comes in 8GB and 16GB capacities and includes an auxiliary power cable, just in case. The Read speeds are 75MB/second and write speeds are 30MB/second. So actually it is more onto the cuteness and tiny rather than the performance.
Tiny SSD drive
via crunchgear
It kinda seems to block 2 sata ports on the pictured mobo. After looking at several of my mobos it would block ports on several machines. But it is still kinda cool.
Personally, I would rather a normal size ssd of 128gb capacity rather than this tiny size(and capacity).
but this is an important step to smaller SSD drives, imagine in a year or two your 128GB in this size inside a netbook.
Holy crap that’s awesome, buy like 4 of them and put them in Raid0, would be a dream!
It would be nicer if you could plug it directly into an eSata external port, making it more of a SATA thumb drive. My motherboard has a few and I never have anything to use them with.
There are already 64gb thumb drives for USB as well :-p
Man this is a genius idea. Love the concept, the look its just awesome. If they could make these bigger (capacity) they would be amazing!
Well, a good first step is shown here. Something to remember: while this isn’t as fast as the fastest possible SSDs on the market today, it is still as fast as current rotating platter devices. These SSDs will not suffer a head crash, and if the memory type has been chosen thoughtfully, it should last as long as many hard disks (if not longer). Obviously, these are smaller than most hard disks as well.
FWIW, if this seems like it will block an SATA port on your mobo, why not use the SATA cables that come with most mobos, use velcro to fasten it to the inside of the box? I have a dozen extra SATA data cables in a box in my basement…