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It would likely be an NVMe or m.2 port, both of which I believe are much smaller ports that are standard on new motherboards that enable much faster bandwidth than anything over Sata. The most common internal SSDs that you can buy off the shelf and offer over 1GB/s read/write are going to be NVMe or m.2 drives (probably) and they're pretty fucking cheap, which is part of the reason people are progressively more upset about non-upgradable storage.

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It's neither. These are not SSDs in the traditional sense, they lack the controller. They are raw storage modules that are paired with the M1's on die controller.

They aren't quite raw storage either. There's a bridge controller in the individual flash ICs, which are custom.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1506039392884109312

You might have been a bit eager to correct me. I wasn't referring specifically to the one mentioned in the article, just responding to the parent's more general question.

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