There’s a new SSD that’s about to make its mark and it modifications issues. It’s the mSSD, brief for microSSD, and Longsys holds the patented IP (mental property) with Lexar already pushing ahead with their Play X Gen4 SSD and AI Storage Core releases. It has been mentioned at some size by different corporations, nonetheless we’ve got the primary in hand. This 30mm x 20mm x 2mm system is true now the worlds smallest, quickest and coolest knowledge storage system. I suppose displaying it atop of a 640MB 3.5″ arduous drive makes some sense, particularly since this small system supplies 1638 occasions extra storage, but weighs solely 2.2g in comparison with the 635g of this tough drive.
The important thing to the Longsys mSSD is the truth that all SSD parts are built-in right into a single chip design. SSD controller, NAND and PMIC (Energy Administration Built-in Circuit) are all contained inside a wafer stage SiP (System in Bundle). By doing this, Longsys has decreased near 1000 solder joints that we’d see in a typical SSD, rising high quality by lowering issues similar to solder contaminatiion, element interference, in addition to reliability degradation attributable to warmth and humidity. This additionally cuts product defect charges from 1000 DPPM (Faulty Elements per Million) to 100 and lowers manufacturing prices by 10%. That’s worth to the patron.
The whole lot is enclosed inside a single bundle. Top quality, excessive effectivity, low value and there may be yet another function that the majority haven’t actually thought-about. That is the best Gen4 SSD we’ve got ever had in hand by a longshot… and it runs at 7GB/s and over one million IOPS.
Smaller than a typical SDXC card, and exponentially quicker than even a CFExpress Sort B card. The mSSD achieves true PCIe 4.0 speeds as much as 7400MB/s learn and 6500MB/s write with over 1 million learn and write IOPS at low 4K random disk entry. This SSD helps QLC and TLC NAND, shall be out there in sizes from 512GB to 4TB, and its energy effectivity complies with NVMe L1.2 low energy customary of being equal to or decrease than 3.5mW.
Huabo Cai is the Chairman of Shenzen Longsys Electronics Co. Ltd which owns each Foresee and Lexar. We met with him and his son Anderson at CES 2026 Las Vegas and he offered the above engineering samples for our testing. This was a really unusual and sudden honour. High left is a Gen4 1TB mSSD with a 512 capability slightly below and proper.
There may be additionally a 2280 (22mm vast x 80mm lengthy) in addition to a 2242 M.2 provider by which the SSD could be slid into every, relying on the dimensions of SSD required for set up. That is the Longsys ‘Workplace is Manufacturing unit’ idea and the aluminum casing of those tool-free clip on enlargement playing cards additionally acts as heatsink for the SSD.
With respect to our testing, this SSD identifies as a Lexar NM790 Gen4 SSD so we all know the controller inside is a Maxio 1602 Gen4 4-channel DRAMless SSD controller. We can’t affirm NAND as of but however we’re informed that this may be as excessive as a 4TB SSD which makes this SSD the smallest and quickest on the planet, particularly since it’s a single-sided SSD.
May this be the top of CFExpress and so many comparable type elements as we all know them? May this open a complete new avenue for SSD chip integration?
Merely due to the Longsys mSSD SiP (System-in-Bundle) design, different options change into evident such because it being mud, water and shockproof. We will see with the Lexar Play X Gen4 SSD that there’s a 5-year restricted guarantee and TBW is as excessive as 1200 for the 2TB capability.
