December 17th, 2007

Intel Z-P140 PATA SSDIntel has announced the Z-P140 PATA solid state drive, which is “smaller than a penny and weighs less than a drop of water”.

“The tiniest in the industry, the Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD is designed for ultra-small mobile internet devices, digital entertainment and embedded applications and is part of the proposed Intel “Menlow” platform. The Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD comes in 2 Gigabyte (GB) and 4GB densities, extendable to 16GB,” the chip maker says.

This 0.6-gram solid state drive, which connects to a system via a Parallel-ATA interface, has a read throughput of 40 megabytes per second and a write throughput of 30 MB/s.

The Intel Z-P140 PATA SSD will be showcased at Consumer Electronics Show in January 2008. Its availability date is currently unknown.

Source

In Laptop News, Solid State Drives
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply