For industrial mobile systems, embedded systems, smartphones and ultrabooks

May 25, 2013 10:33 GMT  ·  By

There might come a time when Ultrabooks, and maybe all other notebooks, will stop using solid state drives and employ µSSDs instead.

For those unaware, µSSDs, or nanoSSD as Innodisk calls the world's first model, are very small storage devices, basically singe chips really.

They take up 1% of the size of a 2.5-inch SSD yet have 4 to 64 GB storage space. That's 16 x 20 x 2 mm / 0.62 x 0.78 x 0.07 inches.

Obviously, that something so small can hold so much information is noteworthy. That the SATA III interface is supported is a nice bonus on top of everything.

Innodisk expects the nanoSSD, the first SATA device in accordance to SATA µSSD standards, to be used more in industrial mobile devices, embedded systems, tablets, smartphones and, as we've already mentioned, ultrabooks.