NanoSSD Plugs Directly Into SATA Slot
Elecom Japan is launching two nanoSSDs in a few weeks that can plug into a SATA motherboard slot.
This seemed like utter coolness: an SSD that can plug directly into a SATA motherboard slot. Announced earlier today in Japan, Elecom's two new nanoSSDs--the ESD-IDSAA series--measures 25 x 39 x 6.5 mm, and could serve as a startup drive on a main system, or could even serve as a primary drive on a compact Mini-ITX system.
However, with the small size comes an even smaller storage capacity: 8 GB and 16 GB. Still, the drives offer decent read/write speeds, with read rates of up to 75 MB/sec. and write rates of up to 30 MB/sec. Unlike HDDs, the nanoSSDs feature minimal cooling requirements and are virtually quiet as a mouse.
The drives won't hit Japanese store shelves for another few weeks, and Elecom hasn't revealed pricing, however pre-orders are already underway. Akihabara News said that GeekStuff4U.com is scheduled to start selling the drives online in a couple of days.
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Wow, when they perfect these and make 80 gb+ models what are we going to do with our drive bays? LoL
Looks like can stack a few of these babies in a single drive bay....
funky new portable storage too if they can use SATA's hot-swappableness
The only thing I'll say is it looks like the form factor makes it overlap the adjacent sata ports - so in essence it's taking up 3 sata ports....
For boutique system builders though - 4 of these in RAID - mucho performance, no wires....
my guess is that they are for those "tiny" systems that used to use the pccard or ide plugs as storage, or even usb sticks to boot from.
minimal systems that don't need all the sata slots filled, and if you move it, then you could put 4 on that mobo in the picture, should still be plenty for a lil raid, but thats not the intention of those modules
even if they did overlap, couldent you just use a sata cable to work around that?
eSata version would be AWESOME. I've been looking to do this with a Sandisk Extreme IV CF and a sata to CF adaptopr, put a minimal XP installation on to speed up my vista machine but this looks better as the SSD wouldn't wear out. I wonder how much they will cost. With 1TB hard drives under £50 (ebuyer) it would be hard to justify paying anywhere near that for one of these. Especially as a proper 64GB SSD is only £86 (novatech)
ok fine service supported