SanDisk launches new Solid State Drives – The pSSD
Posted 03 Jun. 2008 10:00 AM in PC Hardware by Roland Hutchinson
SanDisk has launched a new range of solid state disk drive, the pSSD, designed for UMPC’s.
These new drives will come in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB versions, with a read speed of 39MB per second and a write speed of 17MB per second.
They will be compatible with both Linux and Windows and will go on sale in August.
There is no word on pricing as yet.
via Akihabara News
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June 10th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Pardon me for asking what may be a stupid question, but why is the Port Interface on the “side” of the device?
Assuming that this device is intended to replace standard 2.5 inch laptop drives (and it looks about that size) surely it would make more sense to put the pin connectors in the same place as they would be on other drives? What is the size of that card? Or am I missing something here?
June 10th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Hi Gary
I am not quite sure why the interface is on the side, this SSD is designed to be used in smaller notebooks and UMPC’s I am sure there is a good reason for it just not sure what it is.
Cheers
June 10th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Looks to me like the entire device is only 2.5″ wide, and about 2″ long. The connector is actually the front of the device. I’d assume by the 4 bolt holes a “caddy” of sorts with go around it to make it fit in a standard bay.
Also that connector looks to me like a standard ribbon connector that will probably plug into the “caddy” somewhere which will have the standard plug on it.
Possibly done so they can make it sata/pata with little to no changes other than a different caddy.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
its a 1.8″ drive
http://www.sandisk.com/OEM/ProductCatalog(1282)-SanDisk_pSSD_Solid_State_Drive.aspx
July 6th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
That really doesn’t seem so revolutionary. You can already buy CF cards as fast as that and the same size for under fifty bucks from any major retailer. They already have adapters for those, which also fit microdrives if you want them. The only thing I see that would be better is a larger cache and faster bus bandwidth (judging by all the tiny pins).