STEC creates tiny energy efficient SSD
Category:
Storage / Hard Drives
Posted: April 24, 2008 12:45PM
Author:
Andrewr05
STEC has created a small 1 inch SSD
(Solid State Drive) for the embedded market. The very compact drive uses a mere 1 watt of energy, that is 1/12 the power of a standard disc based hard drive.
STEC's MACH4 SSDs tout a 90MB/s read time and 55MB/s write time, that is pretty darn good for something that is only a single inch big. The MACH4 can be produced with up to 32GB of storage for their MLC
(Multi-Level Cell) based SSDs and up to 16GB for their faster SLC
(Single-Level Cell) based units. No price has been confirmed but don't expect the price to come anywhere close to the largest capacity disc based hard drive storage.
