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Whoa, check out that Samsung NF1 form-factor [0]. Looks like you could pack a ton of small finger-sized SSD drives vertically into a small space. [0] https://
by jaytaylor 8y ago
Whoa, check out that Samsung NF1 form-factor [0]. Looks like you could pack a ton of small finger-sized SSD drives vertically into a small space.
[0] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13752/IMGP2727_575px.jpg https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13752/IMGP2727_575px.jpg
This is one way in which it's a cool time to be alive. I'll never forget circa 1996 when I waited 20+ minutes for my Apple Performa 550 to read and load a 30MB file from the scsi disk into memory. All so quicktime could play a grainy, low-resolution video clip for all of 30 seconds. At the time I was like "That's almost 1 minute per second of video! WTF? That sucks."
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- wtallis 8y agoThat picture is actually the EDSFF 1U Short form factor, which is the closest competitor to Samsung's NF1 out of the variety of form factors defined by EDSFF. Both allow for about 36 drives in the front of a 1U system.
- woolvalley 8y agoThat must get really hot, I wonder how well it cools?
- wtallis 8y agoThere's no backplane to get in the way of airflow, so it is quite a bit easier to cool than a typical hot-swap bay full of 2.5" drives: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13218/IMGP2722.jpg https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13218/IMGP2722.jpg The new connectors between the drives and the mid-plane board are probably the most important innovation these new form factors bring to the table, though something similar could also be done for existing SAS/U.2 connectors.
- manmal 8y agoDon't they just use 1W each, making up 16W in total? I might be dead wrong. But 16W should be easily transported off by the metallic case and a smallish fan?
- walrus01 8y agoHow many M.2 2280 format NVME SSD can you fit in one of those modules?