Tuesday, August 25th 2009
Elecom Intros Pair of SSDs
Elecom Japan announced two new solid state storage products, with the minuscule nanoSSD, and a regular 2.5-inch SSD. The more interesting of the two, nanoSSD plugs directly into a SATA port on the motherboard. It measures 25 x 6.5 x 39 mm, and weighs a mere 8 g. At these dimensions, it offers 16 GB of storage with transfer-rates of 75/30 MB/s (read/write). This just about makes it ideal for embedded machines, test systems, and SFF boxes.
The other SSD on offer of the regular 2.5-inch size, and comes in capacities of 64 GB and 128 GB. Elecom did not provide much info about this in its press-release. Nevertheless, the two drives will hit stores in a couple of days.
Source:
Akihabara News
The other SSD on offer of the regular 2.5-inch size, and comes in capacities of 64 GB and 128 GB. Elecom did not provide much info about this in its press-release. Nevertheless, the two drives will hit stores in a couple of days.
39 Comments on Elecom Intros Pair of SSDs
That NANO SSD is just the stuff I need for a couple of my systems. I'll take (counts free SATA slots)....14.
Imagine down the road where high performance drives just adds on like USB-sticks on the motherboard!
OS only Drive
Games only Raid0
Apps only
I wants prices!
This is how you power it:
www.elecom.co.jp/news/200908/esd-i2saa/image/ESD-ID016SAA_31L.jpg
Ah scrap that. It's only if you cannot supply the SSD from the SATA pins.
Of course, it's a great idea, but I think I'm gonna wait until Powered eSATA 3.0 and stick one of these guys in there :)
for SFFs it especially doesnt matter
It has 2 ports on top of each other, then a little off to the side, there are 2 more. So I could ideally get
4 of these and shouldn't have a problem.
I guess the amount you can have will depend on the sata layout on your mobo.
If their cheap, i would defiantly buy 7... lol
Can't wait till I can throw 4-6 of these at a board though :D
FIXED:D.....:toast:
And as for the complaints about its physical size - well first of all almost every board I've had (Gigabyte / ASUS) scatter their Sata's around a bit - so it wouldn't be a real problem, and second of all I think the intended application for a drive like this is not to build RAID5 arrays (although that may be fun too) its for building simple light - terminal type pc's that probably only have this ONE drive.
(i wonder if you can boot from them ?)