Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp

>Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp

This sounds great, but... what's this "postage stamp?"

Impressive! Would be amazing for a portable media player full of HD movies.

Haha Clem. Perhaps the dimensions of the Postage stamp should have been better defined, but by any rate, this is going to be a significant size reducation over current SSDs. Now about the price...

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

The main issue really? So if it wasn't for that they would pretty much start selling it?

Schmich:

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

The main issue really? So if it wasn't for that they would pretty much start selling it?

Good point, I was rather wondering about that comment myself.

Hmm I am seriously dismayed on this maybe the meant some other measurement of size. The reason I say it is because if the size is so minuscule, but it will hold and entire terabyte. In the least that sound very far fetched!

When this technology is put into a drive costs under $5000, then we might have news.

OH wow, Thats some pretty cool stuff dude?

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Its amazing how technology just keeps changing and improving at such alarming rates. SSD are gonna evolve way faster than what Hard drives have. Just wish they would get me a 120 or 250Gb SSD for around 200 bucks.

Just three words... Bio-neural gel packs

Dr. Phlox:

Just three words... Bio-neural gel packs

I'll take three!

what are Bio-neural gel packs? O.o

i googled it and it was somehting form star trek but what does it do...

"exponentionally smaller"? What a kinked figure of speech. Sounds like some hack trying to sound fancy but graphically failing math instead.

What would be useful to know is what this "short-range, electromagnetic communication" thing entails. That something like bluetooth-attached-storage, no? In other words, the technology is as promiscuous with my data as an open AP or a whispered bt carkit, or, what the heck, a NFC wallet, or a biometric RFID passport.

Hey Phat Controller, thanks for the kind words there bud. :) As Editor here I'll take exception to that. Something can definitely be exponentially smaller... Google the phrase if you like. :) And the communications note in the article speaks to a method of radio communication that they haven't detailed publicly, probably because it's proprietary.

However think about this if it is this small or even the size of a CPU, only thinner. They could put one in your ID which contained all your info, bank accounts SSN DL CC BD address medical allergies and on and on.

@rapid1: It's available already. In fact, the memory-card ID was supposed to be the future of ID cards, except that it got overtaken by the cheaper mag-strip card, which of course contains a minimum of information; it requires a network, or at least an attached host, to look up whatever portion of your database applies.

In any case, you could probably fit any personal information into 64 Megabytes; a Terabyte is overkill.

Of course, if you're the sort who absolutely has to have all your high-resolution X-ray scans from the time you popped into the midwife's hands, well... I hope I don't sit next to you on the bus. .)

Plus every music track you ever listened to or owned in your life and a micro USB adapter on your ID.

True Clem but I was not particularly thinking of that, but having x-rays and personal medical records might not be a totally bad add. Think about it your on vacation somewhere and get hit by a car or some other accident. You get to the hospital knocked out in an ambulance and all they have to do is scan your ID and know everything about you. Either way I was being factitious when I made the comment. If you think about it though you could have everything from as fast swipe fuel card to a credit card to an international ID and all your medical records and pretty much anything else you wanted or needed on an ID like that.

Hey Clem it kind of sucks that they chose the magnetic strip as well. The magnetic strip contains very little info by itself. Yes it will hold ID so a Government computer could look you up. There is basically no more functionality to it really.

First, the chips used are probably 128Gb, not 128GB.

Second, the big story to me is that chips are communicating by EM transmissions, not by hard wires. Has anyone else done this before? This should help connect any set of chips, as long as they don't run hot.