Posted by ketyung
on Jun/24/2009
at 2:02 am
Samsung is developing a small mini-card SSD, which can be used as a complimentary drive for boosting the performance of computer with dual drive capabilities. This mini-card SSD will change the mindset that SSDs are meant for primary storage medium only. Samsung is targeting the fast expanding netbook market, the mini-card SSD is recommended as a better alternative for storage upgrade than the larger size external and portable hard drives.
The Samsung mini-card SSD will come in a mini-PCI Express (PCIe) form factor that comes complete with a SATA 3.0 Gb/s interface. It is just about 20% of the size of a standard 2.5-inch hard disk drive, making it perfect for netbooks with limited space or some other small gadgets including ruggedized handheld and mobile devices.
This little SATA mini-card SSD is also recommended to be used in a combination where SSD as main memory and hard disk drive as the supporting storage space. The intention of Samsung is hoping to make SSDs to be adopted in broader range of applications.
The mini-card SSD will be available in a few capacities including 16GB, 32GB and 64GB only and they will offer a sequential read rate of 200MB/s and sequential data rate of 100MB/s. These mini SSDs are likely to surface as early as Q3 this year, which Samsung engineers are still busy of standardizing the drive’s mechanical form factor and pin layout specs etc.
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