Intel Corporation has announced its new Z-P140 PATA drive today. The new tiny flash drive has only 0.6 g and it is as small as a fingertip. It comes in 2GB and 4GB capacities, but Intel claims a future 16GB version would be available. That's truly amazing, as the drive is only 1/400 of the 1.8" drive volume and 75 times lighter.
The Z-P140 drive uses Parallel ATA interface (PATA), but Intel develops a SATA compatible model. The transfers speeds cannot be neglected as it is able to achieve 40MBps read speed and 30MBps write speed. Good news for power consumption too. The Z-P140 SSD uses only 300mW under load and just 1.1mW in sleep mode.
"Our customers are finding the Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD to be the right size, fit and performance for their pocketable designs. This is Intel's latest offering as we continue to expand our product line of reliable, feature-rich and high-performing SSDs," said Pete Hazen, director of marketing for Intel's NAND Products Group.
The Intel Z-P140 is the smallest SSD in its class, making it attractive to designers and manufacturers of mobile and ultra-mobile devices. The mass production is scheduled for the first quarter of 2008.
via Arstechnica
I guess that's pretty cool, but isn't it the same thing as a flash drive except a bit faster? I don't see why they don't just use those things in SSDs...
Posted by: Nick | December 17, 2007 6:28 PM | Permalink to Comment