Intel's Z-P230 PATA SSD: now in bite sized mini-card flavor
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 14th 2008 8:53AM
posted Aug 14th 2008 8:53AM
First off, we just want to sincerely thank Intel for not making this confusing at all. Not only does the new mini-card Z-P230 PATA SSD boast the same model name and mostly the same specifications as the netbook-focused Z-P230 PATA SSD (scratching your head yet?), but as you've probably gleaned by now, it's rocking the same name, too. The 8-gram device (compared to 11-grams on its [Via PCWorld]
Those Connectors are PATA? since when? I always though pata connectors were pins, not the flat copper pieces on that, which look SATA to me, I didn't think an SSD drive would use PATA :)
??? If anyone can clarify great
It is odd isn't it.
The picture is of a PCI Express mini card, and PCI Express is serial, not parallel.
It's a Turbo Boost card. Intel sells them to laptop manufacturers to (theoretically) speed up loading certain programs in Windows Vista.
check out intels site for explanation
http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/z-p230/index.htm
LOL I was just about to post that link. It's still bizarre that Intel are using PATA connectors instead of SATA ones. Does anyone know why?
They use PATA because it is an otherwise unused connection by the chipset; these are designed to work with Intel chipsets, and laptops don't really use PATA anymore (HDDs and CD/DVD drives are SATA now), but the connection is still available via the northbridge, so they use it.
Because PATA uses less energy than SATA does while being fast enough for the device.
Okay, that makes sense. Thanks guys.
:-)
So it not only "boast the same model name," but "it's rocking the same name, too?" Thanks, engadget, for your peerless journalism!
Well, at first I thought that must have been the result of one of those uber-clear "corrections" that e))) makes when enough people comment on some inaccuracy. But when I looked through the comments, there was no error corrected?!
So it looks like they actually achieved this pinnacle of incoherence without the aid of a retry. Impressive.
omg... 4gb?!
so is this something I will be able to add to my existing laptop or is it something to be added as part of the chipset manufacturing process?
Shouldnt they be working on making SSD's larger
I can go down the street to microcenter and make that for about 50 bucks
http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0255159
http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0245858
And if I look around for more then 2 minutes I could probably make it cheaper.