In June this year, at the Longsys Zhongshan Storage Industrial Park new product launch, Colorful and Longsys jointly announced the world’s smallest SATA SSD SL500 Mini. Today, Colorful officially launched this product and revealed The price of this product is close to that of a regular 2.5-inch SSD.
According to the official, the so-called Mini SSD is an SPD (SATA Disk in Package) that is packaged in one piece and is packed into the Mini SSD shell to form a new specification. SPD encapsulates the main control, Flash, etc. directly into a package that is only 33.4mm*17.2mm*1.23mm, and the weight is only about 2g. This is a brand new SSD specification.
Above you can see the Comparison between SPD and general 2.5-inch PCB
There are two Mini SSD models first released, namely SL500 250GB Mini and SL500 500GB Mini.
In terms of speed, the SL500 500GB version can continuously read and write up to 520MB/s or 475MB/s
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