SanDisk unveils world’s smallest iSSD
Small seems to be the new favorite size, with the smallest media player just announced, and now SanDisk launches its new iSSD which is the world’s smallest yet. iSSD comes from SSD, which stands for Solid State Drive. A Solid State Drive can be said to be an internal hard drive. SanDisk unveiled its newest device, iSSD, which is a set of embedded solid state drives (SSD). What’s interesting with these drives is that they are really small, some say as small as a postage stamp.
Though the iSSDs are small, they come with full capabilities. For starters, the drives offer to its users higher capacities and promise a way better performance that one could get from the usual storage solutions. As small as it is, SanDisk reported that these iSSD are designed for mobile computing platforms, as in ultra portable laptops, slim notebooks, or tablets. It is the first flash SSD device that can support the industry standard SATA interface. The SanDisk iSSD features a 160MB/sec sequential read and 100MB/sec sequential write speeds. It will be released in capacities from 4GB to 64GB.
