A new hard drive on a chip portends reduced weight and size in portable PCs.In the not too distant technological past, a computer’s storage drives filled a space not much smaller than my living room. The new 64-gigabyte solid-state drive from SanDisk is the size of a postage stamp.
The size of the new chip is only 18 by 20 millimeters, less than two mm thick, and weighing less than a gram. The iSSD products have been made available to manufacturing clients for evaluation, SanDisk said. Storage capacities, while limited now to 64 gigs—not nearly enough for fully functional laptops—will increase in time.
SanDisk is among the chief makers worldwide of flash memory modules. It has not set a price as yet on the new gear.
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