Postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs

Posted by ketyung on Thu, Feb 11th, 10 at 10:31 am

SSDs (Solid State Drives) have no moving parts, have many advantages over HDDs such as the durability and speeds. But SSDs have not become as popular as they’ve been expected.

Is it because of the size? Well, the Japanese researchers have some concerns on the size of SSDs, which they’ve developed a technology that will be able to shrink the size of SSDs by no less than 90%, makes them cheaper and boosts energy efficiency by 70%.

The Japanese research team is comprised of people from Toshiba and some institutions such as Keio University. Their new technology will make it possible to develop 1TB SSDs as small as the size of postage stamp. The current prototype is sized like that and it’s made of 128 NAND flash memory chips and one controller chip.

The data transfer speed is huge despite the tiny size, it is able to reach 2Gbps and is based on radio communication that leads to lower production costs. A practical version shall see us in 2 years’ time (by 2012).

via crunchgear

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