Tuesday, August 25th 2009

Elecom Intros Pair of SSDs

Elecom Japan announced two new solid state storage products, with the minuscule nanoSSD, and a regular 2.5-inch SSD. The more interesting of the two, nanoSSD plugs directly into a SATA port on the motherboard. It measures 25 x 6.5 x 39 mm, and weighs a mere 8 g. At these dimensions, it offers 16 GB of storage with transfer-rates of 75/30 MB/s (read/write). This just about makes it ideal for embedded machines, test systems, and SFF boxes.

The other SSD on offer of the regular 2.5-inch size, and comes in capacities of 64 GB and 128 GB. Elecom did not provide much info about this in its press-release. Nevertheless, the two drives will hit stores in a couple of days.
Source: Akihabara News
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39 Comments on Elecom Intros Pair of SSDs

#27
Disparia
Are you going to let some screws stop you?????
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#28
Breathless
Lets not forget the necessary power connector there Jizz....
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#29
Easo
BreathlessNanoSSD = Freakin Genius :rockout:
Agreed!
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#30
AsRock
TPU addict
JizzlerAre you going to let some screws stop you?????
Well not s if i want one but say i did i have no room for it lol...
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#32
A Cheese Danish
It just dawned on me. This would really come in handy for an HTPC. You could use these for applications and stuff
and use external drives for the main storage (movies/music/whatever).
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#33
m4gicfour
pr0n InspectorSATA plug won't fit in eSATA socket.
True, but they do make SATA to SATA PCI brackets as well as the SATA to eSATA ones

For example: monoprice.com linky
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#34
qwerty_lesh
You could probably find male to female sata cables on ebay or somewhere, removing the need to buy brackets and fiddle around, also allowing you to use all your sata sockets, infact IMO they should include such a cable (say a 50cm one) for those who want to use these without losing so many sockets in the process.
I do like the idea though, its quite creative, I wonder if it will catch on though.
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#35
pr0n Inspector
qwerty_leshYou could probably find male to female sata cables on ebay or somewhere, removing the need to buy brackets and fiddle around, also allowing you to use all your sata sockets, infact IMO they should include such a cable (say a 50cm one) for those who want to use these without losing so many sockets in the process.
I do like the idea though, its quite creative, I wonder if it will catch on though.
perfect solution! 50cm is probably too long though.
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#36
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
rampagehigher wright speeds would be nice, my usb thumb drive dose 20mb a second, fix that and when they are out in somthing like 32/64gb then it would be an excelent OS drive, even if it took up say 2 sata ports in space


(i wonder if you can boot from them ?)
these are native sata, so they'd be bootable.

Dont forget that these still have SSD access times, so they'd be epic for e HTPC OS drive, or a silent PC's drive.
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#37
DaJMasta
Yeah, a longer and thinner version would be better, but it would put more stress on the connectors.... probably still not a problem.


I like all these SSD solutions which don't require a cable.... great for SFF builds and easy to setup. I wouldn't mind a PCI-slot like array on the motherboard to connect up the hard drives.
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#38
qwerty_lesh
pr0n Inspectorperfect solution! 50cm is probably too long though.
Yeah your right, 50cm is too much, i should have said 5-10cm like this :)

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#39
OnBoard
That's so cute ^_^ I'd have room for one, similar config of sata ports like on the picture and 3 in use.

Really nice innovation, will keep an eye on these and the prices. Something that I want, but don't really need. These things will sell like i5 on launch date.

Tip to motherboard manufacturers. Want something special bundled with your top of the line board? Supply one of these with drivers/stuff on it :) Well might be expensive, but you could bundle these with everything! :p
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