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December 20, 2007
Tiny Solid-State Drive AnnouncedAimed at the mobile-device market
Intel has announced its Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive (SSD), a tiny solid-state storage device targeting handheld mobile devices. Smaller than a penny and weighing less than a drop of water, the drivce sports a storage capacity of 2GB and 4GB. Comparatively, the Z-P140 is 400 times smaller in volume than a 1.8-inch hard-disk drive, and and at 0.6 grams is 75 times lighter
SSDs use flash memory to emulate hard-disk drives by storing both the operating system and data, and is extendable to 16GB for added storage capacity. The Z-P140 has a standard parallel-ATA (PATA) interface and is optimized to enhance Intel-based computers, and will be an optional part of Intel's Menlow platform for mobile Internet devices debuting in 2008.
The Z-P140 has read speeds of 40 Megabytes-per-second (MB/s) and write speeds of 30 MB/s. Its active power usage is 300mW (milliwatts), and only 1.1mW in sleep mode, which helps to extend a device's battery life.
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