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The 80GB SSD iPhone Mystery....Solved

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hobbsy101

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Hey guys, just did a google search on 80GB SSD in google and seems like in 2008 Intel made exactly that. The price was about $600 but remember that was about two years ago.

See for yourself, Google "80GB SSD"
 
hobbsy101 said:
Hey guys, just did a google search on 80GB SSD in google and seems like in 2008 Intel made exactly that. The price was about $600 but remember that was about two years ago.

See for yourself, Google "80GB SSD"
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Yeah and the 80gb intel SSD uses multiple nand chips, and uses way more power and is way too large to fit in a iPhone.

You need to find a single nand flash chip that is 80gb. Or 2 X 40gb, both of which are extremely unlikely to ever exist.

All I can see is the uses of a 64 gb and a 16gb chip together to make a total of 80. I don't see apple having room for two chips in the iphone, if they want to improve on battery life and make it thinner.

Although micro sim does make more room, not only is the sim card smaller but the entire compartment, and connecting slot equipment is that much smaller.
 
Apple only uses 1 NAND chip per device, they dont have the space to fit more than one.
 
grahamnp said:
Apple only uses 1 NAND chip per device, they dont have the space to fit more than one.
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ipod touch 64 gb?

ipod_touch_inside_12.jpg
 
The iPod Touch can use two chips whereas the iPhone can only use 1 chip because the other space is the communications chip.
 
Its probably 80gb because its a test unit, so its capturing a TON of test data. There are also development tests and other programs and applications testers use. Their is no way they are going to ship an iPhone with an SSD in it. They would have shipped the IPAD with an SSD. The phone probably records its every move so engineers can analyze and configure it. Don't you remember when the original iphone came out there were both apple engineers and att people testing it extensively prior to release?
 
I know the itouch has more room.

But what if apple made room in the new iphone?

I cant see a custom 80gb nand chip.. so weird of a size.

How on earth did engadget determine it had a 80gb storage?

That is one number that seems extremely fishy.
 
What I'm wondering is, is 80 GB (or whatever it is) the low end or the high end. I think it would be cool if the high end was 128 GB's.
 
doubleatheman said:
I know the itouch has more room.

But what if apple made room in the new iphone?

I cant see a custom 80gb nand chip.. so weird of a size.

How on earth did engadget determine it had a 80gb storage?

That is one number that seems extremely fishy.
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Where does it say they think its 80GB? According to what I am reading:

On the back of the phone, it said it was XX GB, but since we were unable to get the phone to a running state, we couldn't see exactly how large it was.
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Samsung just announced their 20nm NAND chips. What are the chances they have some new Samsung chips in there? 80 GB is still an odd capacity though....just thinking out loud here....
 
thelatinist said:
I'd say almost none. Apple doesn't put bleeding-edge tech in the iPhone. It's built very inexpensively, with last year's components.
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I'm not saying for production release, but maybe for a prototype that needs some extra storage for some reason? If Giz would just post pics of the internals....
 
trainguy77 said:
Where does it say they think its 80GB? According to what I am reading:
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Because he said Engadget, not Gizmodo as you're quoting.
Engadget had said in their original story on Saturday that they were told it was 80GB.

5th line down:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/17/iphone-4g-is-this-it/
Is this the iPhone 4G (or iPhone HD)? There's no way to tell for sure, but these photos which made their way into our hands certainly do a convincing job of making us think that's very much the case. Apparently the phone was found on the floor of a San Jose bar inside of an iPhone 3G case. Right now we don't have a ton of info on the device in question, but we can tell you that it apparently has a front facing camera (!), 80GB of storage (weird, right?), and isn't booting at this point (though it was previously, and running an OS that was decidedly new). It's not clear if this is definitely a production model, or just a prototype that found its way into the world, but it's certainly a compelling design, no matter how you look at it.
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