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Re:Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November by Gigachad on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @03:34AM (#29078159)
Apple's chips include storage. They put super fast storage in the SoC.

Raw capacity doesn't matter to most people. I collected up all of my personal files including all photos/vidoes/documents/etc, and it came out to about 35GB. The average person has absolutely no use for a 20TB drive so it isn't very interesting. For CCTV uses, 20TB drives sound awesome.

Fast storage is all that matters to regular users and not capacity.

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Re:Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November by Latty on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:03AM (#29080001)
Pretty sure this isn't true? They have the memory in-package, but the storage is separate AFAIK.

I believe they encrypt it with keys in the secure enclave in the SoC so it is tied to that chip, but not actually a part of it.

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Re:Western Digital to Ship 20TB OptiNAND HDDs in November by Gigachad on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @06:08PM (#29088100)
I just looked this up to check and you are kinda right, It is a separate chip but it sits under the same heat spreader and on the same little pcb platform so I guess on some level they are separate but once they get joined they essentially form one part for most practical purposes.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/06/m1-mac-ram-and-ssd-upgr...

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