Jason Dunn
02-12-2010, 01:01 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/11/coming-soon-postage-stamp-sized-1tb-ssds/' target='_blank'>http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/1...sized-1tb-ssds/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"SSDs haven't found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make them more worthwhile. The team claims it has developed a technology that helps to shrink the size of SSDs by no less than 90%, makes them cheaper and boosts energy efficiency by 70%."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1265924511.usr1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>I'm always a little wary of announcements that claim massive breakthroughs - and SSDs that are 90% smaller and 70% more power efficient certainly qualify for the "massive breakthrough" moniker - but this seems like it's based on an adjustment to the way the current chips are laid out, rather than a re-work of the chips themselves. Anything that can drive down the costs of SSDs is welcome in my book, and hopefully this technology will be part of accomplishing that.</p>