Japanese electronics maker, the company Toshiba, and Keio University in Tokyo, a technological breakthrough that allows you to create SSD capacities up to 1TB size of a postage stamp. This is approximately 90% reduction in size compared with a standard 2.5 "hard drive.

Scientists from Toshiba and Keio managed to cram 128 NAND Flash chips and one controller in the form factor, the resulting device operates at a speed of up to two gigabits per second, or 250Mbit / s. That is a new development about the same as fast as a standard consumer SSD, and researchers argue that it consumes 70% less energy than a typical SSD. Moreover, thanks to a miniature size it is cheaper to manufacture.

The problem, which will slow the market promotion of new small SSD, is that still to this technology, there are no standards that are necessary for the release of the product to the mass market. Technology, competing with the newly approved form factor mSata SSD, is a map of Samsung Mini, the size of which about a business card.Toshiba and Keio University argue that the mass production of miniature SSD will begin in 2012.