Samsung shows off SM961 and PM961 NVMe 'Polaris' SSDs

[HEXUS]

And the PM971 Ball Grid Array (BGA) SSD chip promises to boost mobile storage.

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[ChewieJ]

Wonder what it would do to the price of your average smart phone if it came fitted with even just the 128gb PM971 instead of the current storage set up.....

[semo]

Wonder what it would do to the price of your average smart phone if it came fitted with even just the 128gb PM971 instead of the current storage set up.....

The latest flagship phones have finally started adopting UFS. I don't think smartphone SoCs support PCI so you won't be seeing NVMe being adopted there. The best you can hope for is for average gadget journalists is to realise that storage speeds dictate the overall performance of a device. Once they start testing for that, maybe OEMs will feel pressured to concentrate on IO rather than theoretical multicore IOPS and synthetic benchmark figures.

[mud_z]

+1 to technology.. that BGA Will be helpful!

[deadstoned]

Samsung's Polaris. AMD's Polaris. Polaris is really trending this year... Was there a good movie or song last year called this or something?

[OilSheikh]

Very impressive speeds. The future is here gents, with read speeds of 3.2GB/s

[CaptainAmerica]

Samsung's Polaris. AMD's Polaris. Polaris is really trending this year... Was there a good movie or song last year called this or something?

They're just bright sparks.

[whatif]

Given the heat problems faced by the other Samsung non-sata M.2 drives, hope these are cooler.
Got a heatsink and fan on the controller and another heatsink on other chip (similar to the Raspberry Pi gen 2 heatsinks and fan kits) also fitted to combat the heat on mine (a XP941 256GB and a SM951 512GB), as they can get well over 100°C. The memory chips themselves don't need it as they stay relatively cool in comparison.
Anyone heard anything about how hot they get?

[whatif]

I just looked up Samsung's S7 edge prices for a 32GB version at almost $1300 Australian. So shove in the 512GB PM971 and I could see it coming out with a price well over A$2000 when first released here.
Even a 128GB would be getting close to A$2000.
Even though I need to upgrade my phone (don't know why but someone stole my old S3 and at the moment using a old Omnia 2), I would not be looking at one of these SSD's in my phone as it is definitely out of my price range.