Viking Modular's SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slot

By Vlad Savov posted Aug 27th 2010 7:47AM

Explaining the differences between DRAM and non-volatile storage is about to get that little bit harder, thanks to Viking Modular. The company's decided to "borrow" the DIMM form factor for its latest enterprise SSD offering, equipping it with a 240-pin array to draw power from your spare memory slots. Of course, you'll still need to hook up a SATA cable to get data flowing to this SSD -- at a very respectable 260MBps for both read and write -- but we must admit we're in love with the very idea of it. This new design offers another option for consolidating storage right onto the motherboard and should help case modders yearning for ever-slimmer enclosures. Alas, the SATADIMM is only available to enterprise and OEM clients for now, but we can't think of any reason why it won't test the consumer waters as well -- if not by Viking, maybe someone else?

This. Is. So. COOL! How inventive!

Interesting, and like Boon said very inventive.

So you use up an available memory slot just to give it power?

Yeah I thought the same thing.

other than not taking up a hard drive bay..... why?

Faster Read Speed.

I dont think it is using the memory bus its still needs a sata cable so ?

it said it still needs the sata to get data = fail

It does illustrate how much wasted space and material goes into making an SSD fill the shoes of a HDD though.

What if... SSD with 64bit data bus read write.

Have not been following PC evolution lately but some where a form factor for SSD-Motherboard interface must be under development.