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Storage Solutions
Milpitas, CA—At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California, SanDisk announced the first product in a new category of embedded solid state drives (SSD) that are smaller than a postage stamp and offer higher capacities than existing solutions. The SanDisk integrated SSD (iSSD), dubbed the first high-capacity product within this new category, is designed for mobile computing platforms such as tablets and notebooks.
“The new category of embedded SSDs should enable OEMs to produce tablets and notebooks with an unprecedented combination of thin, lightweight form factors and fast performance,” said Doron Myersdorf, senior director, SSD marketing, SanDisk. “With our embedded flash storage leadership, SanDisk believes it is uniquely positioned to deliver the ultra compact SSD solutions needed by OEMs.”
SanDisk’s iSSD drive supports the industry standard SATA interface in a small BGA (Ball Grid Array) package that can be soldered onto any motherboard, and that is fast enough for use with advanced operating systems. It is said to offer 160MB/sec sequential read and 100MB/sec sequential write speeds. With no moving parts, the drive is designed to deliver the durability needed by portable devices that are frequently dropped. sandisk.com
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