Toshiba BG Series M.2 NVMe SSDs are Really Small

[btarunr]

Toshiba showed off its new BG Series M.2 SSDs, which will grab your attention for being quite small. Measuring 16 mm x 20 mm, these drives are shorter than the shortest (30 mm) M.2 length standard. They still take advantage of the PCI-Express 3.0 x2 interface, and the NVMe protocol. At the heart of this drive is Toshiba's BiCS Flash, a multi-chip module that combines stacked TLC NAND flash memory with an SSD controller into one package. The drives come in capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB. Toshiba is also separately selling these drives as chip-only, to notebook manufacturers, so they can solder them directly onto the mainboards of their low-cost ultra-portable notebooks.



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[Prima.Vera]

Probably slow as hell also since their nr of flash chips is small.

 

[btarunr]

Probably slow as hell also since their nr of flash chips is small.

900-1200 MB/s.

 

[Prima.Vera]

900-1200 MB/s.

I'll take it back then.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Johnny Mnemonic would be proud to own this!

 

[Prima.Vera]

Johnny Mnemonic would be proud to own this!

His 160GB are laughable by today's standards )

 

[Chaitanya]

Probably slow as hell also since their nr of flash chips is small.

Why so much hate for Flash???

 

[alucasa]

Why so much hate for Flash???

He probably got burned by flashing by a girl. At least his avatars tells me so.

 

[JMccovery]

Hmm, a small SSD like this for the OS, stuck away in the corner of the board like in the picture, leaving larger, PCI-E x4 M.2 slots for SSDs like the Samsung 960 series...

 

[Prima.Vera]

Why so much hate for Flash???

Was just a remark question, where did you get I was hating anything??

He probably got burned by flashing by a girl. At least his avatars tells me so.

Joke is on you since I AM a girl. Or a woman in any case...

 

[cdawall]

so they can solder them directly onto the mainboards of their low-cost ultra-portable notebooks.

Nothing you have said makes me think these will replace the flash memory used in low cost units. "low cost" and NVMe don't typically go together.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

"low cost" and NVMe don't typically go together.

This, so very this with M.2 on top (thick PCB which costs more to manufacture).

NVMe can do almost 4 GB read/write and because the shackles of SATA 6 Gb/s are removed with it (750 MB/s at the most, ~550 MB/s is more realistic), NVMe SSDs often get the cream of the crop in terms of chips.

 

[cdawall]

This, so very this with M.2 on top (thick PCB which costs more to manufacture).

NVMe can do almost 4 GB read/write and because the shackles of SATA 6 Gb/s are removed with it (750 MB/s at the most, ~550 MB/s is more realistic), NVMe SSDs often get the cream of the crop in terms of chips.

Yea the term low cost never comes into this market. They are perfectly happy using the crap eMMC stuff for the low cost market.

 

[Blueberries]

Samsung has already created an entire SoC this size so it's pretty boring really, I'm not even sure what use this is or who would benefit from it.

 

[RejZoR]

Probably slow as hell also since their nr of flash chips is small.

You have to realize Toshiba invented NAND flash memory. Usually people who invent things happen to also offer best performing solutions. For obvious reasons...

 

[PowerPC]

All I can think of is who names their product "BG"? You automatically alienate half of your customers who are gamers these days.

 

[deemon]

so when those are smaller than the smallest standard, how or where do you put them? or you just stick them to M.2 slot and leave them hanging? then thinking about it... you don't really need to secure so short board anyway...