New Requirements Allows Addition of Convenient Storage space to Cellular Devices
The Sequential ATA Worldwide Company (SATA-IO), the market range devoted to retaining the quality, stability and distribution of Sequential ATA (SATA™) technology, these days declared it has completed a new edition of its Worldwide Storage space Component (USM®) standard allowing customers to simply and easily increase the storage potential of their cell phones. The USM Slim™ specification describes a thinner, 9mm aspect, making it an ideal storage solution for ultrabooks, pills and other portable gadgets.
"As mobile computers develop significantly thinner, designers must create tradeoffs with respect to the quantity of storage they can develop in to their products"
Demand for thinner, lighter cell phones often results in reduced local memories, restricting the quantity of articles customers can carry with them. The USM Slim specification allows companies to create external storage promotions that effortlessly couple with these slim and light gadgets so that customers can still have entry to their music, films, images and other articles at any time or place. The lesser form factor now makes it possible for thinner CE gadgets to include the USM coordinator connection or position to take the 9mm module.
Like the unique USM specification, which specified a 14.5 mm size, USM Slim describes how designers can style spots into their items that take complete, operated, external storage gadgets with incorporated SATA connections. These spots and storage gadgets allow customers to immediately accessibility their articles from a wide range of items and to effortlessly exchange that articles between gadgets without the aid of extra power or connections. The incorporated SATA interface can handle exchange connections up to 6 GB/s, providing customers the same speed and stability they've come to expect from their hard disks and other SATA-based gadgets.
"As mobile computers develop significantly thinner, designers must create tradeoffs with respect to the quantity of storage they can develop in to their items," said Mladen Luksic, SATA-IO chief executive. "The USM Slim specification lets companies style alternatives for increasing the storage potential of cell phones without restricting the mobility customers demand."
The USM Slim specification is currently available at no cost for SATA-IO members. It will also be made available to the market at large as part of the SATA Modification 3.2 launch, which SATA-IO desires to be available later this year. Meanwhile, companies are already beginning to create USM Slim items. Seagate has been delivery a 500GB Slim external drive, which is according to this new USM Slim specification. Seagate's® Slim storage is available available and extra gadgets from a wide range of companies are required to be available soon.
More information on USM, USM Slim and other SATA technology is available at www.sata-io.org.