Comments on: Elecom Releases NanoSSDs To Be Plugged Right Into Motherboard. Why?

By: Anthony Oliver

Anthony Oliver — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:27:24 +0000

These would be awesome in uses such as having a mother board control a robot and you want to minimize space.

By: Anthony Oliver

Anthony Oliver — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:27:24 +0000

These would be awesome in uses such as having a mother board control a robot and you want to minimize space.

By: lobosolo

lobosolo — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:48:09 +0000

might be good for heat problems or for a mobile car computer. other then that i dont know.

By: at41183

at41183 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:58:25 +0000

Only good reason I could think of is if you're building a complete system the size of an NES controller or something

By: blairf_felgenheimer

blairf_felgenheimer — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:16:32 +0000

Cause SATA cables cause cancer?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:14:00 +0000

This is mostly useful for embedded systems.

By: Judd Howie

Judd Howie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:35:14 +0000

"Can anyone tell us, aside from the gee-whiz factor, why these are a good idea?"

Great for virtualisation. Store your hypervisor on the small ssd and then all your disk images elsewhere/shared storage. That way if your hypervisor dies, just load up another one and keep on moving.
These SSD's are a straight modern day DOM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_on_module