Ever heard of a “1517” or a “Mini SSD”?

MicroSD cards are tiny but slow; the M.2 storage sticks in your PC are blazing fast but bigger and fully enclosed. Now, a new type of SSD out of China could be the best of both worlds — and it’s already set to appear in two cutting-edge gaming portables.

Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is calling it the “Mini SSD,” though another manufacturer refers to it as the “1517”; it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny and just slightly larger than MicroSD. Despite that, it offers maximum sequential read speeds of 3,700 megabytes per second (or 3,400MB/s writes) over a PCIe 4x2 connection, and offers 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities.

I suspect this will go over about as well as Samsung’s UFS cards.

So, now we have yet another competing standard for removable storage.

    • PowderhornOPEnglish
      2•2 days ago

      No pricing yet, and who knows where tariffs will land.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)English
        10•2 days ago

        Just putting it out there that not every person that’s commenting in English on Lemmy is in the US.

        • PowderhornOPEnglish
          1•2 days ago

          This much is rather clear, from a number of different vectors.

          • WombleEnglish
            5•2 days ago

            I think her point was that you were doing the annoying “everyone is from USA so I’ll just talk like we all are” by bringing up Trumps tarrifs when they were not the topic of conversation and are irrelevant to everyone outside the USA.

            • @[email protected]
              1•1 day ago

              Even in the non-authoritarian dictatorship countries, one of these is still likely to be prohibitively expensive.