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Does the other packages give you this ability? The other fine pitch parts are also very difficult to change over.
by yitchelle 10y ago
Does the other packages give you this ability? The other fine pitch parts are also very difficult to change over.
- Nullabillity 10y agoSATA, PCIe, and M.2 drives are trivial to replace.
- aavotins 10y agoThis is a chip that gets soldered directly on the board. While it is possible to solder this specific chip to a detachable interface that can be removed, I highly doubt anyone will ever do it. This form factor has a huge advantage for OEMs - they can just slap on a single chip that has everything built in - controller, memory management and the actual storage. Less parts = less convoluted assembly process and that is cheaper. While theoretically you can put a BGA fully integrated SSD SOC like this on a PCI-E card or M2 etc., it kinda beats the purpose.
- yitchelle 10y agoPersonally, I think BGA parts are great. They are small and quite robust mechanically an highly integrated (as you have said). I did my early engineering years with DIP parts, the days of when you could just desolder the memory device and place with a higher density device are long gone.