I mean, we already have memory cards like microSD. And SSDs have been shrinking for a while now. Not surprising someone is getting to the point where the line blurs.
SD cards lack durability in my experience.
Hopefully a reason for producing this alternative is improved durability.
So… an SD card?
No no, a Sim card! Wow!
No, Micro/SD-cards have a very simple controller (no wear leveling, trim) and thus need no heat spreader. This one would need one.
It’s a little weird that wear leveling isn’t handled at the software level, given that you can surely pick free sectors randomly. Random access is nearly free. So is idle CPU time.
SSD still simulate HDD, because OS would need to adapt otherwise, lol.
Defragging wasn’t handled in hardware. The OS is free to frag it up.
Yep, defragmenting still did help with NTFS even on SSD, until MS made it a daemon in Windows 10.
It doesn’t say in the article but as cards are pretty terrible for long term storage, maybe this is better?
Is there a difference, besides SSDs tending to be plugged-in all the time? Maybe better firmware?
SSDs have controllers that help mitigating storage issues whereas SD cards are dumb.
chips on m.2 devices are already that small. i bought a 1TB one recently and it was mostly just empty.
… so i’m assuming this is just a new package?
MicroSDs are tiny but slow
Transfer speed: 985MB/s
It’s a bit brave to throw shade with only around 3x increase, atleast when we’re already talking about absurd speeds
Holy shit, the fever is well controlled!
