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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: 2) by driverless on Monday June 03 2019, @06:23AM
Yeah, that's Adata, you're paying close-to-USB prices but also getting close-to-USB performance. We got suckered into buying some of those a while back based on price, write speed was so atrocious we binned them, they were literally unusable for anything that wasn't read-mostly once you filled the onboard write buffer. As I said in a previous post, you get what you pay for, and you're not getting a Samsung EVO when you use a USB key for storage, whether it has an SM3282 or not.