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Silicon Motion Controller to Enable High Speed, Low Cost Portable USB SSDs

posted by martyb on Saturday June 01 2019, @07:09PM   
from the good-fast-cheap...pick-3? dept.

takyon writes:

A USB Stick as an SSD? A New Silicon Motion SM3282 Single-Chip Controller for USB SSDs

Silicon Motion has introduced its first single-chip controller for portable USB SSDs. The SM3282 promises to enable makers of portable drives to offer up to 400 MB/s sequential read speeds in a cost-efficient manner previously unachievable by external SSDs.

[...] Previously, makers of external SSDs had to use a USB-to-PCIe bridge alongside an SSD controller to build their products, which greatly increased BOM costs as well as the final price. The SM3282 packs all the necessary functionality into a single chip and thus reduces BOM cost of external SSDs.

SSD - Solid State Drive
BOM - Bill of Materials

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• System on a keyring becomes unavoidable... System on a keyring becomes unavoidable... (Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 01 2019, @10:27PM (1 child)

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday June 01 2019, @10:27PM (#850309)

  Already, booting and running from a USB 3.0 thumb drive is pretty damn close to "the real thing." With this, we should all be able to take our desktop image with us and just boot from it wherever we go.

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• Unless the "wherever" is locked to booting Windows (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 02 2019, @02:57PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 02 2019, @02:57PM (#850582)

  Which steadily becomes ever closer to the real thing.

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