Patent ID: 8498130

Claim:
A solid state drive comprising: a printed circuit board having a substrate including opposite upper and lower major surfaces; at least one memory configured to store data, the at least one memory being located between the upper and lower major surfaces of the substrate of the printed circuit board as embedded in the substrate of the printed circuit board; and a controller operative to control the at least one memory to perform a write operation or a read operation, the controller being located between the upper and lower major surfaces of the substrate of the printed circuit board as embedded in the substrate of the printed circuit board so as to be surrounded by the mass of the substrate, wherein the controller includes: a host interface configured to communicate with a host device; a memory interface being electrically coupled to the at least one memory; and a processor in communication with the host interface, and with the memory interface, whereby the host processor can communicate with both the at least one memory and with a host device connected to the solid state drive via the host interface.