Category: rumors
By: Morgan Jones
Japanese researchers shrink SSD size by 90 per cent, yet retain capacity
A research team in Japan has managed to develop technology that could produce postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs
According to Crunchgear.com, a team of researchers is developing miniaturization technology that could revolutionize SSD use by 2012. The team includes researchers from Toshiba and Keio University in Tokyo. The primary source cited by Crunchgear.com is Nikkei.com, which is open only to paying subscribers; therefore, it's not possible to find out much more about this research at the moment. There is no word about this development on my favorite Japanese news site yet either: Akihabaranews.com.
Consumers could see 1TB SSDs as small as a postage stamp available in 2012. Apparently, the energy efficiency of the devices is 70% greater than existing SSDs. There is no information regarding the performance of the research prototype. It would be interesting to know the read and write rates of such a device, as well as its likely cost. This kind of technological development will undoubtedly affect notebooks in a multitude of ways, with the most obvious being chassis size. It would be feasible to run such drives concurrently, and use them as external storage too. This is exciting news, so I hope to hear some more concrete information regarding this research soon.
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