Toshiba commercializes a small power-saving SSD for PCs, which is approximately one seventh the size and consumes half the power

By adopting multi-valued NAND of 32 nm process, 2.5-inch type SSD (Solid State Drive) Toshiba commercialized SSD which realized about 1/7 volume ratio of volume ratio, about 1 / 8th of mass ratio by mass ratio, and 1/2 power saving by power consumption ratio It is said that mass production will begin.

Details are as below.
Toshiba: News Releases (2009 - 09 - 22): On the Industry's First 32 nm Process Multivalued NAND SSD Product

The product lineup consists of 4 types of 2 types, half slim type module and mSATA type module, and 2.5 inch case type is available as an option.

Both half slim type and mSATA type are form factor for small mobile devices that are standardizing at SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization) and JEDEC (EDEC Solid State Technology Association), half slim type is standard SATA connector, mSATA type The SATA interface can be used with mini-PCIe connector. It seems that it can be incorporated as a module in a compact and lightweight mobile laptop computer, mobile device, small size / low power storage etc represented by a netbook with an increasing number of shipments.

Specifications are as follows.

◆ Half slim type module
Model number: THNSNB030 GMSJ (capacity 30 GB), THNSNB 062 GMSJ (capacity 62 GB)
Interface: SATA 2.6 (3 Gbps)
Power supply voltage: 5 V
Power consumption: Write: 1.8 W (Typ.), Read: 1.3 W (Typ.), Idle / Standby / Sleep: 65 mW (Typ.)
Maximum transfer rate: Write: 70 MB / s Read: 180 MB / s
Dimension: W: 54 mm, H: 4 mm, L: 39 mm
Weight: 9 g
MTTF (Mean Time to Failure): 1 million hours

◆ mSATA type module
Model number: THNSNB030 GMCJ (capacity 30 GB), THNSNB 062 GMCJ (capacity 62 GB)
Interface: SATA 2.6 (3 Gbps)
Power supply voltage: 3.3 V
Power consumption: Write: 1.8 W (Typ.), Read: 1.3 W (Typ.), Idle / Standby / Sleep: 65 mW (Typ.)
Dimension: W: 30 mm, H: 4.75 mm, L: 50.95 mm
Weight: 9 g
MTTF (Mean Time to Failure): 1 million hours