News Microsoft's mysterious Z1000 SSD uncovered, points to wider portfolio of drives — M.2 NVMe drive comes with Toshiba NAND, Micron DRAM, and CNEX Lab...

[Admin]

Microsoft's Z1000 SSD has been pictured, with 1 TB of storage, 1 GB of DRAM cache, and a CNEX Labs controller.

Microsoft's mysterious Z1000 SSD uncovered, points to wider portfolio of drives — M.2 NVMe drive comes with Toshiba NAND, Micron DRAM, and CNEX Lab... : Read more

 

[fzabkar]

The controller bears a date code of 1906. That's week 06 of 2019.

Here are the best resolution photos I could come up with (by fudging the URLs):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIOXBI1a0AAtL4P?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIOXBI2aIAESdsM?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIOXBIza4AAsjBM?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIOXBI0aQAAW1Il?format=jpg&name=large

 

[cyrusfox]

Weird... a dev ssd board from microsoft, what I don't get is the implication that this was for a datacenter drive, I think it highly more likely it was for custom requirements for some custom device (Surface, hololens, xbox,etc..). I suspect Microsoft is pushing for some minimal spec like the PS5 has done. I highly doubt they would ever get in the actual commodity SSD space in volume, especially outside their first party devices.

 

[usertests]

Plus, this SSD is a 22100 model, longer than the 2280 and 2230 models that are far more common in PCs.

M.2 22110, not 22100.

 

[Cohibaa]

Think this ties back to the open source hardware initiatives. Is this ssd described in this spec? https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Storage#Specs.2C_Designs_and_Presentations