Surfing on the current success of ultra-mobile devices and/or ultra-low cost computer, SanDisk announced a new series of SSD specifically designed for this market.
To reduce manufacturing cost as well as the size, the SSD is more or less a printed circuit on which sit flash memory chips and a controller. Data transfer speed are not as high as standard SSD, but reaches 39 MB/s in reading and 17 MB/s in writing modes. Three models should be available based on their storage capacity: 4, 8 and 16 GB.
Such reduced SSD will be using a PATA interface, very similar to the Zif PATA found in the Mac Book Air. So one could use them if SanDisk decide to increase the storage space further of such reduced SSD in the future.
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