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Samsung Announces 512GB NVMe SSD That's Smaller Than a Stamp
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Yes there have. They'll last much longer than anyone would ever need them too. Source: http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
Awesome technology. No doubt Apple will be implementing this into their products as soon as they can price it appropriately (I wouldn't be surprised if a postage-stamp 512 GB SSD currently costs $1000+ all on its own- before you put it in a computer).
Personally I'd like to see them put it in their devices and fill up the free space with battery instead of thinning their devices down even further. But that's just me. Soon my iPhone will double as a nail sharpener.
Personally I'd like to see them put it in their devices and fill up the free space with battery instead of thinning their devices down even further. But that's just me. Soon my iPhone will double as a nail sharpener.
"Can't innovate anymore, my ass!"
Oh, wait, this is from that different company that just copies Apple.
Oh, wait, this is from that different company that just copies Apple.
It is a piece of coloured sticky paper that allows for actual confidential transmission of data, whereas this new SSD will cough up its secrets so much faster to the FBI.
I'm wondering when we may see a 3rd-party auxiliary base that you clip under your ever-so-thin MBP (similar to an iPhone battery case), utilizing a fast TB3 connection and offering space for "normal" (i.e. cheap) 2.5" SSD's, some battery pack (at least the USB-C port on the 12" rMB is not patented) and perhaps even an external GPU. Edit: Note to myself: After reading the latest rumor about the claimed top case leak - add an option for a card reader as well.
Even more elegant would be a construction that would replace the existing MBP base lid. As the motherboard is affixed to the top case, exchanging the base lid would be a question of getting out the screws and putting the new housing extension on. Piece of cake.
With the rumored thinness reduction in upcoming MBP's the whole construction may be as thin (or "thick" by Apple's measures) as current gen devices. And even if older machines would become a bit thicker, probably quite some people would happily accept that tradeoff for some clean solution for external storage expansion.
Perhaps I should make myself familiar with design programs for 3D printers ...
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Samsung is probably saying to Apple: can't innovate my ass!! It's a shame Apple won't take advantage of this in many years, or worse, it will charge you an arm and a leg to upgrade.
Can't believe Apple (the same company that got rid of CD/DVD drives and now USB ports and even allegedly headphone jacks) still has the guts to sell computes with spinning hard drives as their standard option.
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Can't believe Apple (the same company that got rid of CD/DVD drives and now USB ports and even allegedly headphone jacks) still has the guts to sell computes with spinning hard drives as their standard option.
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Wow, we just had the same thought...
Yes. Backblaze publishes a report of their experience yearly and it's quite in depth.
This. Still, 512 in this size is amazing. Now, Apple, put this in my phone, thankyouverymuch.
I haven't read the thread yet, has anyone said Die Samsung die yet? Or there goes Samsung copying Apple again?
You will be pretty damn happy to note this thread is full of suitably impressed forum members. Count me among them. That is some nifty Arthur C. Clarke "magic" right there.
I wonder what this cutting edge tech will get Samsung in India?
The article states that this is a ball grid array package....the balls are actually solder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_grid_array
looks like no matter who uses it in a device will have to solder it
Apart from Apple have been using the latest Samsung PCI-E flash storage modules in every single refresh of Macbook Pro and iMac - and the Macbook Pro actually had a 1TB version of the fastest Samsung module they'd ever made which wasn't even available to buy on the open market, but you know, no one cared to both writing about that because they were too busy making repetitive jokes about 16gb iPhones and things being thinner.
