8TB?
16 chip packages of 256Gbit each = 512GB per card. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but wouldn't you need 16 x 16 256Gbit packages to get to 8TB?
Is it maybe 16 chip packages each with 16 x 256Gbit chips per package?
Samsung's 8TB next-generation small form factor (NGSFF) NF1 flash card is to be standardised by the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association in October. It measures 11cm x 3.05cm, compared to M.2's 11cm x 2.2cm. In that space Samsung has fitted two rows of four 256Gbit TLC 3D V-NAND chip packages on each side - 16 chip …
Currently struggling along with a 256GB NvME SSD as a boot and main games disc. The idea of having 8TB of space on an NvME speed boot disc to play with blows my mind.
On the other hand, this will probably cost about half of the deposit I paid for my house, which is just a tad silly.
Yeah, it'll probably cost that much, but this isn't aimed at individual users - at least not until flash prices drop pretty dramatically. But the corporate/enterprise world will eat these up, even at current prices; there is a hunger for flash in that environment that is truly astonishing.
"That's a heck of a lot of torrent files."
not so much torrents, but if you have a lot of DVD's and bluerays you have collected over the years ( including replacing previous VHS purchases) and would prefer to watch them in the full glory your UHD HDR tv can provide via an Emby server.... and add CDs ripped as FLAC that you have collected over 30+ years, also replacing vinyl records and compact cassettes you already paid once to format shift, and have no intention of doing so again.....
No standards group is willing to bless this cluster fork.
Yes, you can stuff this into an M.2 connector in many cases, but the signals are not the same. If done wrong, you could smoke your laptop or motherboard by using this new device. Signals are on different pins. Extra voltages, etc. Computer vendors are starting to release warnings about this device and the potential damage it can do to your system.
"So what does this bring, other than an extra half millimetre?"
When you're trying to squeeze as much as possible onto a PCB, even a fraction of a mm of extra space in the right place can make the difference between your design being achievable within all your current design rules, or only being achievable if you decide to recertify your manufacturing processes to handle the new rules you'd need to bring in, or potentially not being achieveable at all because your current design rules already push your processes to their physical limits.
Or it might alternatively just be Samsung wanting to make a bit of a splash by driving a new form factor through the standards committee, rather than just quietly adopting an existing standard and getting on with the job without any fuss...