Sandisk intros 8GB iNAND embedded flash drive

It may not be 16GB, but Sandisk's new embeddable 8GB NAND flash drive is still pretty darn spacious as far as these things go, so much so that the company's deemed it necessary use an extra letter to fully express the drive's expansiveness. Dubbed the "iNAND," the drive is fully JEDEC-compliant (that's Joint Electron Device Engineering Council, for those that have better things to memorize) and SD bus-compatible, designed for use in just about anything that needs to cram a lot of storage into a small space, including cellphones, PDAs, MP3 players, and GPS devices. It looks like we'll still have to wait a while before we see one of these actually turn up in a device, however, with SanDisk only just now distributing engineering samples for testing and evaluation, with mass production slated to get underway sometime in the third quarter of this year.

[Via Tech Digest]

[angelsvairwaves1 @ Feb 13th 2007 7:03PM]

seee how far they go with it

[Rick @ Feb 13th 2007 7:09PM]

Apple is going to send them a "Cease & Desist" within a few days for using the "i".

[LJKelley @ Feb 13th 2007 7:33PM]

LOL... Cease & Desist... I wouldn't be suprised. I am however still suprised that most PDAs still only have about 128-256MB of Flash Memory inside?? Whats up... Its must be a conspiracy with SD card makers to make us buy expansions...

http://www.startblue.net

[Juaquin @ Feb 13th 2007 7:51PM]

Can we PLEASE stop with the "i". I know we all like to get on Apple's case for going after the little guys who's names are similar, but I wish they would do it more often so we wouldn't have all these damn iNames.

[greg @ Feb 13th 2007 8:35PM]

psp 2 with one of these :0

[AndrewNeo @ Feb 14th 2007 12:09AM]

I'm sure the 'i' in this case actually stands for something..

[Matt Hadder @ Feb 14th 2007 1:11AM]

PCMCIA....
Why don't they make PCMCIA 8gig (or bigger) flash drives?
That way you could load windows onto that and your system would boot instantly.

Most people have at least 1 or 2 empty PCMCIA bays in their laptops not getting any use.

[tekdroid @ Feb 15th 2007 7:21AM]

'cause flash isn't "instant boot", nor is it unlimited rewrites. Nor cheap as a HD.