The Intel® Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive is smaller than a penny and weighs less than a drop of water. These ultra-small devices are fast, low-powered and rugged, with the right size, capacity and performance for mobile internet devices, digital entertainment and embedded products.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/...2008/index.htm
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Hope this drives the price down on them. Would love a nice silent hdd
Next thing you know, Intel is going to have monitors and RAM.
Good thing though... more SSD companies there are, the more prices go down when performance goes up.
Finnaly some Intel ssd news.
Bring it on I say.
Time to wage a new war, one against all those hdd old companies.
and with smaller ssd chips you can fit more of them onto a single PCB which I would imagine would result in higher density drives.
This has pretty much nothing to do with the really interesting SSDs. Z-P140 is effectively a "drive-on-a-chip": a PATA controller piggybacking a flash chip. It's not something SSD builders could stick in a "real" SSD to make a desktop drive, no sir, this thing is a whole, working SSD. You could probably rig/solder a PATA cable on the darn thing and plug the gadget in the PATA port of your motherboard...
:p
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Using current storage interfaces is like the tick in Intel's tick tock for cpus. Intel is also working on a new interface to take advantage of solid state storage so that they aren't needlessly bottlenecked like they are now.
PATA connector is bigger than that drive...
Also, SSD and PATA? isn't it, like, pointless?
www.teampclab.pl
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xoqolatl,
PATA is perfectly enough as the flash chip in the device maxes out at 30-40MB/s...
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then in that case, there goes any hope for cheaper SSD drives...Originally Posted by keiths
I am aware of achievable speeds, I was rather thinking about SSD being small, expensive and innovative, which is the exact opposite of PATA.
www.teampclab.pl
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Test bench: empty
In the 80's Intel was one of the RAM manufactures LOL!
Posted by duploxxx
I am sure JF is relaxed and smiling these days with there intended launch schedule. SNB Xeon servers on the other hand....
Posted by gallag
there yo go bringing intel into a amd thread again lol, if that was someone droping a dig at amd you would be crying like a girl.qft!
Born in '87... didnt know what computers were or how to use my dad's Samsung 286 until '92 or '93.
I had no idea.
Now all they need to do is fix their ICH so that it works properly with SSD drives. It does make me wonder how heavy 1 drop of water is though...
Just a shame they removed pata from their own chipsets.
Seriously though, a good move.
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I just go through upgrading to an Intel P35 by Gigabyte, cheapest one I could find, $87 after taxes at a CompUSA clearance sale. Dang shame about them!
My ICH works fine thank you very much. Now if AMD could just fix everything all would be OK!
Posted by duploxxx
I am sure JF is relaxed and smiling these days with there intended launch schedule. SNB Xeon servers on the other hand....
Posted by gallag
there yo go bringing intel into a amd thread again lol, if that was someone droping a dig at amd you would be crying like a girl.
this will definitely eat up all of intel's 45nm capacity if they really plan on competing in the SSD market for more than a couple months...
Fast computers breed slow, lazy programmers
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
Modern Ram, makes an old overclocker miss BH-5 and the fun it was
Really?
Is there actually any competing products similar to Z-P140 out there?
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Flash chips
Fast computers breed slow, lazy programmers
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
Modern Ram, makes an old overclocker miss BH-5 and the fun it was
Isnt bigger and more consuming the nr1 a selling argument?
Just look at people who buy cars, and by passive anonymity kill the Earth at the same time.
I am all for smaller and faster though, cheaper also even for free works for me, no ego there
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wow sweet little chip
Has anyone ran across or seen details on this chip that might suggest it is based on phase-change technology?
If so then this is a pretty amazing product and will not suffer from the latency/transfer speeds of typical flash.
EDIT: Nevermind -- it's NAND, it is in their product brief.
Meh, nice -- but not revolutionary.
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