New Mini-SATA Interface Designed for Netbooks
New Mini-SATA Interface Designed for Netbooks
Posted 09/21/2009 at 3:29pm
| by Jason Barry
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The SATA International Organization (SATA-IO) is planning to introduce the latest SATA connector at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF). The new platform, named mini-SATA (mSATA), is roughly the size of a business card and is similar in size to the PCI Express Controller.
Primarily aimed at manufacturers, the mSATA connector was designed for smaller storage solutions, such as 32 to 64GB and meant to supplement primary storage. The folks at SATA-IO anticipate that the new module will allow systems makers to provide more creative storage solutions such as dedicated OS or application drives.
Toshiba and SanDisk also announced they would be debuting mSATA modules in various storage sizes at their booths at IDF. Overall, the new platform will create smaller netbooks and mobile products and "Smaller is always better,” says Steve Duplessi, tech analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
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Peanut Fox
September 21, 2009 at 4:20pm
Because eSATA, USB, mUSB, and FireWire arn't enough. Just what a need. Another odd ball cable to link crap.
nekollx
September 21, 2009 at 4:26pm
this sounds more like a internal connection then a port side to me so...
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nekollx
September 21, 2009 at 3:47pm
"Smaller is always better,”
That's not what his mother said last night...
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