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
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.
39 Comments on Elecom Intros Pair of SSDs
and use external drives for the main storage (movies/music/whatever).
For example: monoprice.com linky
I do like the idea though, its quite creative, I wonder if it will catch on though.
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.
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.
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