Elecom Japan sent out a press release today, announcing its new ESD-IDSAA series of solid state drives. What makes this "nanoSSD" unique is that instead of taking up a drive bay, it plugs directly into one of the SATA ports on your motherboard. Elecom's new drive also gets its power directly from the SATA port. However, an auxiliary power cable is included in case it cannot get enough juice. The ESD-IDSAA series is available in 8GB (ESD-ID008SAA) and 16GB (ESD-ID016SAA) capacities and is capable of 75MB/s read and 30MB/s write speeds. No word on pricing or availability at this time.
