Kioxia, the company formerly known as Toshiba, has started to ship a new storage device based on a new form factor, XFMEXPRESS, which aims to bring the best of both SSD and microSD worlds.
XT2 na'urar ajiya ce mai cirewa ta PCIe da aka haɗe ta NVMe wacce, bisa ga wallafe-wallafen tallace-tallace na Kioxia, za su “haɓaka aikace-aikacen wayar hannu na gaba na gaba”.
Fasaha - wanda shine shekaru uku a cikin samarwa - ana iya cirewa kamar katin microSD, tare da girma (18 x 14 x 1.4mm) ɗan girma fiye da na ƙarshe (14 x 11 x 1mm). Mai haɗin sa yayi kama da abin da wayoyin hannu ke amfani da su don katunan SIM na nano, suna buƙatar murfin da za a zame a gefe don samun damar katin.
Mai magana da yawun kamfanin ya fada TechRadar Pro cewa XT2 za a yi farashi gasa tare da wasu nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan SSD na irin wannan aikin kuma za'a bayar da su a cikin iyakoki daga 128GB zuwa 1TB. Dangane da saurin gudu, idan aka ba shi ya zo tare da layin PCIe Gen 4 x 2, karantawa da rubutu na jeri ya kamata su wuce 2500Mbps da 650Mbps bi da bi.
Kishiya ga microSD?
Don’t expect XFMExpress to replace microSD any time soon, even if demand for the tiny cards has taken a downward trajectory as mainstream smartphones abandon removable storage altogether.
Hakanan akwai rikice-rikicen da ke da alaƙa da tsarin kishiya SD Express, wanda kuma ma'aunin PCIe NVMe ne, wanda zai iya kaiwa har zuwa 4GBps, yana ba da fasalulluka na tsaro na ci gaba kuma ƙungiyar SD tana goyan bayanta.
Wanne ya kawo mu ga tambayar ko kasuwa yana buƙatar wani sabon nau'i na nau'i, lokacin da masu aiki na yanzu ke amfana daga babban tallafin kasuwa, mafi kyawun aiki, ƙaramar sake aiki da ingantaccen tsaro. Mun sanya wannan tambayar ga Kioxia kuma za mu sabunta labarin idan muka ji baya.
As for use cases that require high performance, high capacity storage, there’s plenty (e.g. prosumer cameras, IoT/edge servers etc.), but they are likely to be niche and unlikely to sustain a market where rival formats exist.