Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor

All things considered, that’s not a bad looking socket system. With thermal limitation the issue, it seems BGA+heat sink will still outperform but at the cost of not being upgradable. Still, seems like a fair idea to have a PCIe4 MicroSD.

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Post by thinkmassive » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

Cool! I read the announcement and visited the product page[1], but I didn't see any indication of when this will start to be available. Anyone have any clues?

1: https://business.toshiba-memory.com/en-jp/product/memory/xfm...

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Post by shawnz » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 4:50 PM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #2

Wonder if we'll see these on the Raspberry Pi 5 and other embedded boards? This is pretty amazing; much better than the current eMMC and SDCard based storage solutions on a lot of dev boards.

Is it better than SD Express though, which also supports PCIe and is backwards compatible with existing cards?

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Post by raintrees » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 4:51 PM UTC

No mention of starting capacities...

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Post by SlowRobotAhead » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #2

Wonder if we'll see these on the Raspberry Pi 5 and other embedded boards? This is pretty amazing; much better than the current eMMC and SDCard based storage solutions on a lot of dev boards.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but no RaspPi has a PCIe interface, yet. From the embedded side of things, I would expect that to be a whole Pi generation out. Even then, I’m honestly not sure what the use case is, the Pi is doing amazing things with SPI and USB.

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Post by shawnz » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #8

djsumdog wrote: post #2

Wonder if we'll see these on the Raspberry Pi 5 and other embedded boards? This is pretty amazing; much better than the current eMMC and SDCard based storage solutions on a lot of dev boards.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but no RaspPi has a PCIe interface, yet. From the embedded side of things, I would expect that to be a whole Pi generation out. Even then, I’m honestly not sure what the use case is, the Pi is doing amazing things with SPI and USB.

The RPi 4 uses PCIe to interface with the USB 3 controller. However it doesn't provide an external interface for it.

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Post by pritambaral » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 4:58 PM UTC

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #8

djsumdog wrote: post #2

Wonder if we'll see these on the Raspberry Pi 5 and other embedded boards? This is pretty amazing; much better than the current eMMC and SDCard based storage solutions on a lot of dev boards.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but no RaspPi has a PCIe interface, yet. From the embedded side of things, I would expect that to be a whole Pi generation out. Even then, I’m honestly not sure what the use case is, the Pi is doing amazing things with SPI and USB.

The USB 3.0 controller on the Pi 4 is connected via PCIe.

https://blog.hackster.io/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b...