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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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Silicon Motion Controller to Enable High Speed, Low Cost Portable USB SSDs
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 02 2019, @03:06PM (2 children)
The shittier the flash, the dead-snail slower the useless trinket once the faster cache (all 4GB of it) gets exhausted. And good luck on returning your "decent brand" idiot bait.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 02 2019, @04:14PM (1 child)
I'm sure you can get one with more cache if you are willing to pay more. And you can find reviews of SSDs and flash drives where a large amount of data is copied to see how much the speeds drop once the cache is filled.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 02 2019, @05:43PM
Not for better ways of fooling the gullible. QLC is not just shitty write speed and write endurance, but also data retention measured in MONTHS. Don't know about you, but I do not HAVE terabytes of throwaway data, so am paying my €'s for MLC.
As to honest reviews that one can find - yes you can, but not quickly or easily in my experience. If you do know a recipe how to ask a search engine NOT bury them under mountains of "commercial speech", please do share.