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No, they seem to be Apple-specific, as they are controlled by their T2 chip. So expect extremely expensive SSD too.
by _ph_ 7y ago
No, they seem to be Apple-specific, as they are controlled by their T2 chip. So expect extremely expensive SSD too.
- amarshall 7y agoWhich, of course, if they aren’t able to be user-replaced with commodity parts, kind of throws the whole “user-upgradeable” part out the window.
- jandrese 7y agoDo they have to be special sauce drives? The picture makes it look like standard M.2 drives. It doesn't seem like you should need anything special if the T2 chip is just acting as a bog standard drive controller that happens to send only encrypted data to the drive.
- samcat116 7y agoI believe those drives are just the flash, as the T2 chip actually acts as the controller. That might be wrong but that's what I've gathered from how the iMac Pro works and I assume this is a similar configuration.