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Toshiba invents a tiny 1TB SSD
JAPANESE ELECTRONICS OUTFIT Toshiba and Keio University in Tokyo have made a technological breakthrough that allows SSDs of up to 1TB capacity to be made the size of a postage stamp.
That is about a 90 per cent reduction in size compared to a standard 2.5-inch hard disk drive.
Boffins from Toshiba and Keio have managed to cram 128 NAND flash chips and one controller into this form factor and got it operating at a quoted two gigabits per second, or 250MBps.
This makes it about as fast as standard consumer SSDs and the researchers claim that it is 70 per cent more power efficient than a typical SSD. Not only that, it is cheaper to produce because it is so small.
The problem that will slow its adoption is that there are no industry standards for this technology yet, which will be needed for it to gain mass adoption.
The technology is rivalled by the newly approved mSata SSD form factor based on the Samsung mini card, which is approximately the size of a business card.
Toshiba and Keio University say their prototype should lead to a production ready version by 2012. µ
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This is good news,SSD drives will replace old style platter disks within the next couple of years,this will save on power and wieght.
yeah yeah sounds great, talk to me when its out already. I'm really tiered of these stories promising this and that and nothing comes of it.
Get back to me when you have a "Where and when and how much"
Other than the battery and the screen, the next largest component in my laptop is the hard drive. reducing it to the size of a postage stamp will allow future versions of my laptop to be reduced in size by up to 10%
It can knock 5" off the depth of the case because we would not need 3.5" hard drive bays.
You all forget the momentum HDDs now have. It will take years for SSD to catchup with today's HDD capacities.
Toshiba might release 1TB SSD in 2012, which HDD had already in 2008...
@hoohoo:"It can radically shrink the form factor of a PC."
No it can't. The form factor of the PC is there to suit the needs of the video card, motherboard, cpu-fan combo and ofc. the power supply. You can't have powerful components inside without good airflow in your case. And that's not going to change anytime soon either...
Above, Well into tens of millions iops is actually tens of thousands IOPS For Tosh. However, 10 or 20TB SSD Might be ten of millions IOPS. In FACT Higher Speed SSD Uses INCREASED IOPS Software Like RAID, Only instead of cataloging up to 12 or more spinning discs & grab time, errr, Fastsnippets be thy Game,
SSD Is Huge Catalog Software & ?Buffer Assorter. How about L! iNSTALL wIZ,so many phamphlets of structure repeatively USED Snatched & Again, NEXT:.
. In SAndBox where Anticipation Brings 1.3 Bits Up per Stroke, Readieing Signal & placement become paramount. ONE SSD =TELCO on InSide.
Ever Wonder how many IOPS HDD Gets, Couple of hundred, thats it. in R.A.I.D. arrray, barely moore, as software eats Most of increase in IOPS Up in Complexity, Making it Jittery & only faster.
need an array that could support 875 IOPS to support a 250 IOPS RAID 6-based workload that is 50% writes. Thats how much more RAID NEEDS In Tests' Compared to Actual perofrmance of Much Lower Net data transfer, Up to 6:1 Reduction in Stroke complexity in High RAID.
Now With SSD, On SANDFORCE Card last week, 800,000 IOPS. Who Even Knows if its possible, yet thats 500 Mb/s Read/Write Random. so 250 Mb/s Seq. Might be 1/4 of that or 200,000 IOPS in above SSSD, maybe less.Way Into Tens of millions, However..
How Can 200 compare to 200,000 & be inear same ballpark. don't know, IT JUST IS.
With 20TB SSD-PU In Ultee' Labs Near theREADER. Peepers Will Crave Look, Game or INSTANT O/s Change,NO HARDER THAN CLOSING ONE BROWSER & OPENING ANOTHER. Drop 'Em to Vault or Keep 'Em Freash in Cooler. Disc out UnExracted crates. Leave Descrip behind on every one, Watch Out World, SSD Gonna RULE. Its Rough huge MAPPING, However, MACHINES DON'T CARE.
Signed:RoBoTOM.
Just stick a SATA connector on one side and sell it. At that size people could plug them straight into their motherboards, regardless of what 'standard' their systems use. Laptops and desktops alike.
Someone in China can surely build a piece of plastic that fits in a 5.25" or 3.5" bay. and has a bunch of slots for these things. Use whatever draft standard for a tiny SATA plug that exists now - same company as make the plastic piece can make cable.
If the tiny SATA plug standard changes then so will the cable. Aftermarket industry handles changes fast.
Really, this sort of form factor and storage density is the killer change for solid state storage. This is small enough it could just plug directly onto a motherboard. It can radically shrink the form factor of a PC. It can put 1TB in your media player or cell phone.
If any of you readers know the people behind this thing, just tell them to rush to market. It is a no-brainer!
"since when do your *consumer* SSD units handle more than 250MB/s reads?"
Since 2008/9?
How about loads of those in a 3.5" case RAID 0?
First of all the article does not say this is a consumer device. Second, he never said that consumer devices handle 'more than 250MB/s reads'. Your comments at Nick do not reflect what is in the article.
If you can't even parse one article and respond to it correctly, perhapse you should not try to judge who is worthy of writing articles and who is not. :)
Sh*t, bolt a 300Mb/s interface on it and get it to market!
'standardized interface' and a perfect controller chip did not stop current SSDs coming to market. They evolved to address the problems that came up in use.
Just do it.
Uhm, I know I don't keep up on all the tech news like some idgits these days but, since when do your *consumer* SSD units handle more than 250MB/s reads? I'm beginning to think Mr. Farrell knows absolutely nothing at all. Storage isn't "consumer oriented" until it drops to no more than $2/GB. As things stand now, the best you could say is that it would be "enthusiast oriented."
Nick, quit this profession and do something you are more capable of.
...in time. Not only that, but remember when Asus came out with mobos with an onboard OS and a bit of flash for saving your settings/web history? a small 1Tb drive that (in 3-4 years after they start manufacturing in earnest) is reasonably priced will allow for netbooks with large storage and 2-second boot times.
How do they achieve this?
is a miniPCI-E card with both the SSD and this (http://semiaccurate.com/2010/02/09/texas-instruments-announces-wilink-70-chip) little beauty.
Oh, and a firmware update for my ThinkPad so I can swap out the existing WiFi card without the POST complaining about a security breach.
This is extremely nice, so this would theoretically make a 2.5" 10TB SSD possible.. and even bigger 3.5" versions..
This might even spin the storage world upside down and make SSD cheaper per TB than ye olde spinning platter hard disk drives.. or one can only hope it will.