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1. HOW BIG SHOULD MSATA BE INTEL SMART CONNECT TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE
2. HOW BIG SHOULD MSATA BE INTEL SMART CONNECT TECHNOLOGY LICENSE

Our first encounter with Phison was with Crucial's v4 SSD, which wasn't very pleasant as the v4 was one of the slowest SSDs we have reviewed in years. It uses a new SATA 6Gbps controller from Phison, a company that's more known for their USB flash stick controllers. What is more interesting (at least from a novelty standpoint) is the BP3 ("Bullet Proof 3"). MyDigitalSSD's SMART SSD is a standard SF-2281 based mSATA SSD and there are other OEMs such as Mushkin and ADATA offering similar products. Complete specifications are in the table below: MyDigitalSSD sent us their 256GB SATA 6Gbps mSATA SSDs in for reviewing.

HOW BIG SHOULD MSATA BE INTEL SMART CONNECT TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE

Of course if you're buying in volumes big enough (like Apple), then anyone will build you whatever you like that makes finding upgrade parts difficult, so MyDigitalSSD is specifically targeting that market. We don't often see such form factors used but there are laptops that rely on some of these uncommon SSD solutions. MyDigitalSSD's approach is totally different as they offer SSDs ranging from standard 2.5" SATA drives to PATA SSDs and half-slim SATA SSDs. Typically SSD OEMs, regardless of how big they are, only offer a few products that are almost without exception 2.5" SATA drives. Unlike many other SSD OEMs, MyDigitalSSD's aim is to provide something for everyone. Since MyDigitalSSD doesn't have the resources it takes to build their own controller or firmware, they are left with using commercial controllers, SandForce and Phison in this case. They don't have a presence on NewEgg or many of the other major online stores, though you can find some of their products at Amazon. MyDigitalSSD is one of the not-so-well-known SSD companies. That, of course, is if you choose the easiest route, which isn't necessarily the ideal option because there are already plenty of other companies using the exact same strategy. Even manufacturing can be outsourced so basically what you're left with is distribution and marketing.

HOW BIG SHOULD MSATA BE INTEL SMART CONNECT TECHNOLOGY LICENSE

Thanks to Marvell, Phison and especially SandForce you don't need a huge team of engineers to make an SSD because you can buy and license everything from third parties. Compared to DRAM there are obviously more components involved because on top of the NAND you'll also need a controller and possibly DRAM as well.

There are only a handful of NAND manufacturers (most of which make DRAM as well) but there are dozens, if not hundreds of SSD OEMs. The consumer SSD market is quite similar to the DRAM market.