DISQUS

Judd Howie · 3 months ago

"Can anyone tell us, aside from the gee-whiz factor, why these are a good idea?"

Great for virtualisation. Store your hypervisor on the small ssd and then all your disk images elsewhere/shared storage. That way if your hypervisor dies, just load up another one and keep on moving.
These SSD's are a straight modern day DOM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_on_module
fbfb · 3 months ago

This is mostly useful for embedded systems.
blairf_felgenheimer · 3 months ago

Cause SATA cables cause cancer?
at41183 · 3 months ago

Only good reason I could think of is if you're building a complete system the size of an NES controller or something :)
lobosolo · 3 months ago

might be good for heat problems or for a mobile car computer. other then that i dont know.
Anthony Oliver · 2 months ago

These would be awesome in uses such as having a mother board control a robot and you want to minimize space.