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-[* black] Back to the business of taking things apart: next up are these twin SSDs.
+[* black] Back to the business of taking things apart: next up are these twin storage units.
[* 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] Unlike a standard SSD, which has the controller logic onboard, these raw flash modules only have an interface buffer—the PCIe/NVMe controller lies elsewhere. More on that in a bit.
+[* black] Unlike a standard SSD, which has the controller logic onboard, these raw flash modules only have an interface buffer—the PCIe/NVMe controller lies elsewhere in the T2 chip.