There’s lots of news on the solid state drive front these days. Recently I wrote about tiny integrated SSDs and now, barely more than a week later, comes news of another form of compact drive from Viking Modular. This one is much more consumer-friendly though; it’s designed to occupy one of the DIMM slots that would normally be used to house your desktop computer’s RAM. They call it the SATADIMM.

This is of particular interest to space-conscious hardware enthusiasts; a DIMM module is very compact, far smaller than a typical 3.5″ or even 2.5″ internal drive. It draws power from the DIMM socket’s motherboard supply, eliminating one cable connection while making use of a single SATA cable for the data connection as any standard drive would.

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Responding to the mobile computing world’s ever-increasing need for more storage in less space, SanDisk has come up with the iSSD, or Integrated Solid State Drive.

Designed to be soldered directly onto the motherboard of a smartphone or tablet computer, iSSDs will initially be available in sizes from 1GB to 64GB, all crammed into a space of 16mm x 20mm x 1.85mm and weighing less than one gram.

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