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| - | [* black] Back to the business of taking things apart: next up are these twin |
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| + | [* black] Back to the business of taking things apart: next up are these twin raw flash modules. Unlike a standard SSD which has the controller logic onboard these modules only have an interface buffer and the T2 chip is the controller (PCIe/NVMe). |
| [* black] Under a couple stickers we find some Torx screws. Off they go! | |
| [* black] Each blade is designated Apple EMC 3197, model 656-0061A. | |
| [* black] Popping the shields off, we encounter some chips: | |
| [* red] SanDisk SDRQF8DC8-128G (four per card, two top and two bottom, for a total of 512 GB × 2 = 1024 GB) | |
| [* orange] Apple 338S00285 | |
| [* black] Conspicuously absent here is any sign of an SSD controller. It seems the modules are interleaved to improve performance, but the PCIe/NVMe interface lies elsewhere. More on that in a bit. |