How it is comparable to microSD express(with pci-e 3.1 and nvme) announced February this year? https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/286390-sd-association-ann...
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
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Re: Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a new use case, it's still used to connect a card to a board. Just like the hinged connector used for microSD before this [0]. It's more USB 3.0 type A connector vs. the USB 2.0 type A. Neither the connector itself nor the application are innovative. Which is why nobody is pointing out the particular innovation in the connector. [0] https://www.yamaichi.de/products/connector-solutions/card-co...
Using it for a smaller NVMe SSD, however, is. Quite clearly. You can call just about anything "not innovative" if you're sufficiently reductionist about it. The idea that the only "true" innovation is some totally unknown, totally revolutionary idea that came completely out of nowhere fully formed is a toxic one that robs people and companies of just praise for coming up with interesting and useful new things, while…
I had this type of connector for memory cards in some old devices. This was a while before the push-push connectors came into fashion.
The requirements back then were much lower than what this connector delivers. No real need to dissipate heat or handle PCIe signals.
Re: Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
#43Last week I purchased an NVMe drive for a small home server I'm building. Take into consideration the last time I bought components was about 6 years ago so it absolutely blew my mind seeing how small the NVMe drive was, like the size of a chocolate bar and barely more than 1mm tall. I took photos of it in the palm of my hand!
Seeing they're looking into shrinking these things even further is even more incredible to me!
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#44I can definitely see the perks of the form factor here, and totally see SSD cooling hardware as being the next big thing, and it sounds like they're prepared for that here. But I mourn how fast the interface format is changing now, because I don't have the hardware to support all of these formats. I've got a handy USB to SATA adapter that did the job for, I don't know, a decade and a half, and now there's eight diffe…
Its crazy my 2.5" SSD died last week and I opted to go from 2 different SSDs to 1 2 tb nvme SSD. I too have a USB to Sata adapter but now I can't use it on my personal computer.
I do have a thunderbolt external nvme adapter they have got a lot cheaper.
Re: Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
#45I can definitely see the perks of the form factor here, and totally see SSD cooling hardware as being the next big thing, and it sounds like they're prepared for that here. But I mourn how fast the interface format is changing now, because I don't have the hardware to support all of these formats. I've got a handy USB to SATA adapter that did the job for, I don't know, a decade and a half, and now there's eight diffe…
SATA, M2, now this. What other interfaces are there?
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#46Love the form factor and I hope to see something like this in raspberry pi devices.
Re: Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
#47I can definitely see the perks of the form factor here, and totally see SSD cooling hardware as being the next big thing, and it sounds like they're prepared for that here. But I mourn how fast the interface format is changing now, because I don't have the hardware to support all of these formats. I've got a handy USB to SATA adapter that did the job for, I don't know, a decade and a half, and now there's eight diffe…
I think this new format is nice because it requires no tools to install, like most other components e.g. RAM.
In contrast, current M2 NVMe have this annoying screw that requires a fairly specialized screwdriver and tends to get stuck in some motherboards. Not a good design. So Toshiba's new form factor looks like a step forward.
Re: Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
#48I can definitely see the perks of the form factor here, and totally see SSD cooling hardware as being the next big thing, and it sounds like they're prepared for that here. But I mourn how fast the interface format is changing now, because I don't have the hardware to support all of these formats. I've got a handy USB to SATA adapter that did the job for, I don't know, a decade and a half, and now there's eight diffe…
SATA, M2, now this. What other interfaces are there?
Less common and I might be mangling terminology , but there's also PCIe, PCIe-Mini, mSATA, SATA Express (same connector as SATA). There's also a variety of m.2 form factors
Re: Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
#49I can definitely see the perks of the form factor here, and totally see SSD cooling hardware as being the next big thing, and it sounds like they're prepared for that here. But I mourn how fast the interface format is changing now, because I don't have the hardware to support all of these formats. I've got a handy USB to SATA adapter that did the job for, I don't know, a decade and a half, and now there's eight diffe…
I constantly see adapters (big old metal trays with a relatively dump circuit for connection) for adapting M2 drives to fit in PCI slots.
Re: Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor
#50I can definitely see the perks of the form factor here, and totally see SSD cooling hardware as being the next big thing, and it sounds like they're prepared for that here. But I mourn how fast the interface format is changing now, because I don't have the hardware to support all of these formats. I've got a handy USB to SATA adapter that did the job for, I don't know, a decade and a half, and now there's eight diffe…
I think this new format is nice because it requires no tools to install, like most other components e.g. RAM. In contrast, current M2 NVMe have this annoying screw that requires a fairly specialized screwdriver and tends to get stuck in some motherboards. Not a good design. So Toshiba's new form factor looks like a step forward.
I refuse to replace my NVMe for this reason alone. That screw is going to get stuck somewhere and I'm going to have to take the motherboard out completely to get it, hoping the whole time I didn't fry anything.
Why. Why make a screw that small. It's torture.