Over
the past year we have seen storage get smaller and smaller, but now ADATA is
introducing their XU41 or Mini solid state drive. This is one of the smallest implementations
of a full solid state drive that we have seen. Check out the video below to see
what I am talking about.
It
has the dimensions of 16 x 20 mm and it is in a BGA (Ball Grid Array) package
which means everything is on a single chip. As far as performance goes the
drive will have sequential read and write speeds 400 MB/s and 180 MB/s
respectively. It was also had 4K random writes of up to 20K IOPS (Input/Output
Operations Per Second). The XU41 will also support NCQ (Native
Command Queuing, TRIM and S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
Reporting Technology).
The
XU41 will be available in capacities ranging from 8GB all the way up to 128GB.
ADATA expects to see implementation of the XU41 in tablets and other small
devices towards the middle of 2014.
Going
small is a great thing specially on a SSD! It supports BGA means everything in
on a single chip. I think all gadgets now are getting smaller and faster in
terms of data transferring and and functionality.
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