Tech-On reports that the Japanese government is sponsoring development of a new type of Solid State Drive. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology launched the project as part of the CREST program. The development team will be led by Ken Takeuchi, associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo, Tadahiro Kuroda and Hiroki Ishiguro, electrical engineering professor and associate professor, respectively, at Keio University.
The aim of the project is to develop SSDs that don’t need any external connections, and can thus be sealed to prevent damage by water, electrostatic discharge and other external factors. This requires both wireless communications and a wireless power source.
The communications interface should be able to reach a speed of 10 Gbps, and the power transmission system is supposed to work at a distance of 1mm from a host system. Can you imagine placing a drive on top of your PC and having it “just work” without connecting any cables? I can see a lot of uses for such a drive.
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