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Foremay announces world’s smallest SSD on chip
AMERICAN STORAGE MAKER Foremay has today announced its OC177 disk-on-chip (DOC), the world's smallest solid state disk (SSD) drive.
The company is shipping the SSD in capacities of up to 32GB and it measures just 22x22x1.8mm in size, almost the same as a 20 pence piece. According to Foremay, this makes it the world's smallest SSD.
The NAND flash memory data storage drives support standard IDE and SATA interfaces with read and write speeds of 70MB/sec and 40MB/sec, respectively. Foremay expects to make a larger 64GB capacity available in the third quarter.
The DOC technology means that the disk can be integrated into a system directly on a computer's motherboard. Foremay said the DOC SSD is designed for high performance and reliability and will be particularly useful in the design of compact systems such as laptops, netbooks, embedded computers and handheld and mobile devices.
Jack Winters, CTO of Foremay said, "The DOC can be soldered directly onto the motherboard via its LGA or BGA pins, which also significantly enhances the anti-shock and anti-vibration performance from DOC equipped computers." µ
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What matters more than MB/s is IOPS.
Harddrives degrade to about 1Mbyte/s when faced with random 4K writes. Crappy SSDs fall flat on their face and deliver a few hundred kbyte/s.
I haven't seen a IOPS performance figure quoted for the article's drive, and not for Sandisk's issd either. If they have non-crap IOPS figures, it would be a huge step forward for mobile phones and pad computers.
The typical MMC/SD storage commonly used in portable devices does 4-7 IOPS/sec. OCZ's recent drives start at 15000 (yes, fifteen thousand) and go up to 40-70000 for the higher end drives.
"Foremay said the DOC SSD is designed for high performance and reliability"
Really, then I hope the article reported the read/write speeds incorrectly.
"read and write speeds of 70MB/sec and 40MB/sec"
Mechanical hard drives surpassed that speed in 1999. All other SSD's on the market are actually, fast.
since the SanDisk iSSD is just 16x20x1.85mm, it is indeed smaller than Foremay's 22x22x1.8mm
Sandisk has it's iSSD for a while now http://www.sandisk.com/business-solutions/ssd/issd