Monday Mach Xtreme Technology unveiled its new 1.8-inch MX-NANO series of PATA SSDs for notebooks with 50-pin, 44-pin, and ZIF PATA interface. The MX-NANO line also resembles old NES cartridges, a bonus for old-school gamers who cant get enough of 8-bit nostalgia.
According to the company, the MX-NANO series offer maximum reads speeds of up to 120 MB/s, write speeds of up to 90 MB/s, a maximum of 5,200 IOPS, and a lifespan of around 1 million hours MTBF. As for storage capacities, all three versions provide 30 GB, 60 GB, 120 GB, and 240 GB. The drives also come with a 1 Year Warranty.
"Combined with industry’s leading 256MB cache memory and ultra-fast access times, these new SSDs deliver double or even triple the performance of the default hard drives in most current notebooks, resulting in substantially faster boot-up, application load and shutdown speeds," the company said. "It is one of the fastest and easiest ways to upgrade dozens of different notebooks and UMPCs to higher performance and more local storage."
At this point, pricing and availability is unknown, however the company's website indicates that consumers can purchase the drives in Los Angeles and New York.
