14 DAY TRIAL // Some PCs just don't have a lot of space inside, if any at all for 2.5-inch or smaller storage devices. Still, no computer can work without some storage capacity.
Knowing this, ADATA has created what essentially amounts to flash drives which have SATA ports instead of USB.
The company calls it Disk on Module SATA SSD, since SSDs are, technically, what all NAND Flash-based storage devices are, in a sense.
The newcomer has SATA III 6.0 Gbps support and is made from MLC NAND Flash chips. Its read and write speeds aren't that high, at 250 MB/s and 40 MB/s, respectively, but it's not like the things are expected to be used in servers or PCs.
No, they're made for industrial computers, network infrastructure hubs, even medical systems.
That said, the endurance is pretty high at 1 million hours, the power consumption is a tiny 1.15W, and the temperature support is of -40°C and 85°C / -40 °F to 185 °F.
Essentially, the ADATA SATA III 6 Gbps 7-pin Disk-On-Module (DOM) can work in any machine that is expected to be used in unfriendly environments. Both horizontal and vertical pin orientations exist, in 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB. Prices, alas, are unknown.