Intro

Hello steem team! This is my first post so please bear with me as I attempt to tackle Markdown.

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Samsung Electronics just announced earlier this week that is has begun mass producing this puppy

What is this?

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This, steemeans, is the very first NVMe* PCIe solid state drive (SSD) with a single ball grid array.

The exact specs are below

What does all this jargon mean?

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To put it simply, Samsung has a new SSD on the market. It is quick and small because it uses new technology. One of the first technologies it uses is combining 16 of Samsung’s 48-layer 256-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND flash chips into one chip. This allows for it small form factor, but what is perhaps even more interesting is the actual connection. If you take a peek at this image here....

you might notice that the ssd doesn't use a standard adapter. It actually uses a Ball Grid Array or BGA. This is the pin layout shown in the image above. The pins connect into the PCIexpress bus. This is the same bus that is used by your graphics cards because it is capable of transferring information very quickly. 15.754 GB/s at most.

Why do we need this?

This will likely be the direction SSDs will be headed in the future. The BGA allows for very quick transfer of information and makes swapping SSDs out a breeze. Besides... how else are you going to hold your steem?

Thanks guys! This was just a quick little write-up I wanted to do for the community so I could have some experience with how it all works. All of my sources are below if you want to find out more information. Its pretty cool I honestly believe this is the way things are headed in the future.

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• https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-mass-producing-industrys-first-512-gigabyte-nvme-ssd-in-a-single-bga-package-for-more-flexibility-in-computing-device-design
• http://www.geek.com/chips/samsungs-new-512gb-ssd-is-smaller-than-a-us-postage-stamp-lighter-than-a-dime-1656836/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express