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Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp

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Toshiba develops technology that could allow for.... This is not a product. Headline (yes I realize it is from the site) is misleading.

>The main issue right now is that there's no industry standard in place for this type of technology, so it could be difficult to gain acceptance from PC makers and the like.

Yes, the author really figured out what the main issue is right there.

How Hard would it before for them to come out with some sort of container that fits into a normal hard drive bay that these can be slotted into and sata would be plugged into a similar place to it is for a normal hard disk drive.

Trivial. The main issue with the technology is that it doesn't work yet :) When it works, you can bet that hardware manufacturers will adapt it as necessary.

And BTW, there are lots of SSDs that aren't laptop-hard-drive size. The ones in the eeepc are just mini-PCI cards -- very small.

I don't completely understand why this would be an issue with multiple near stamp size storage mediums such as sd or memory stick, etc.

Not hard at all. Am guessing the comment was sarcasm directed at the articles author.

So how much longer before we can get a few of these hardwired into our brains? Carrying things around is sooo late 20th century.

Somewhere Ray Kurzweil is getting very excited.

Uh, there is already storage available that's much smaller than this; microSD cards, for example.

Personally I find it amusing that after all these years, storage has surpassed CPUs in terms of the ratio of price / volume occupied. I wonder how this will trend in the future.

Apples to oranges...

For one thing, CPUs don't have to do anything when power is not applied to them. Your disk has to keep all its data regardless of whether it has power or not.

Ignoring that, storage is something you need a lot more of than addition circuits or whatever; if you look at the diagrams of CPUs showing what transistors show what purposes, you'll see a lot of them are the cache. Because there is more need for storage than computation.

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