Viking Modular Places an SSD in a RAM Stick

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Now, we've all seen solid state drives as a standalone drive, a PCI-e add-on card, and even integrated on to the motherboard. Next up on the list is apparently a stick of RAM that will house an SSD. Viking Modular announced today that it has outfitted a RAM stick, or at least the form factor, with an SSD. The SSD fits onto a 240-pin form factor so it will work just fine in a spare DDR3 memory slot on your motherboard and requires a SATA connector to transfer the data. Viking Modular promises a transfer rate of 260MB/second for both read and write which is pretty outstanding for an SSD. The SSD, dubbed a SATADIMM, will be available in 50, 100, and 200GB capacities and is powered directly from the voltage supplied to the DDR3 slots. I am sure there are plenty of people who have a spare memory slot or two who could benefit from more physical storage space and this could be the solution. However, Viking Modular is sticking just with enterprises and OEMs for now but hopefully if the product is successful we will see it readily available for the masses.

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nahuelcutrera on August 28, 2010 04:33PM it could be really good if the price is right... reply to this

AddictedGamer93 on August 27, 2010 02:13PM weird reply to this

Locutus on August 30, 2010 11:26AM Seems a bit silly that it still needs the SATA connector... reply to this

bp9801 on August 30, 2010 04:30PM Future revisions won't need it but right now it does. Don't see how that is much of a problem, SATA cables are super cheap. reply to this

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