At the IDF 2009, Toshiba unveiled a series of SSDs that are based on 32nm MLC NAND flash and support mini-SATA (mSATA) interface.
The mSATA SSD is smaller than a business card and help manufacturers to accommodate adequate storage in a small space as compared to regular SSD or conventional HDDs. In addition to the smaller footprint, these SSDs crank out performance equivalent to regular sized SSDs with the SATA interface support up to 3Gb/s and read/write speeds of up to 180/70 MB/s.
Toshiba also showed half-slim SSDs that are basically case-less modules and performs as good as regular SSDs.
Both the SSDs will come in capacities of 30GB and 62GB with volume production expected to start in October.
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