---
title: "A New 512GB SSD Solution Fit into a Card Smaller Than a US Postage Stamp"
description: "Samsung introduced the first complete 512 GB SSD solution ever created in a single ball grid array (BGA) package. It measures only 20mm x 16mm and weighs just about a gram. With this size and capacity, laptops, tablets, and other gadgets can be designed with more flexibility, and packed with higher specs."
date: "2016-07-13"
modified: "2016-11-29"
authors:
  - name: "Cecille De Jesus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/cecille"
url: "https://futurism.com/samsung-packed-a-complete-512gb-ssd-solution-into-a-card-smaller-than-a-us-postage-stamp"
categories:
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "samsung pm971-nvme"
  - "SSD"
---

# A New 512GB SSD Solution Fit into a Card Smaller Than a US Postage Stamp

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Samsung-512GB-SSD.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Samsung Newsroom\</em\>*

## Memory Card-sized Hard Drive Replacement

At a size smaller than a US postage stamp, Samsung’s new storage device may easily be [mistaken for a memory card](<http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3053/~/the-differences-between-an-ssd-and-a-memory-card>), but it’s actually a solid state drive (SSD)—as in [storage that you can use instead of hard drive](<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404258,00.asp>). And you can slip this one at the bottom of your motherboard (if you have the right type).

![This tiny SSD, smaller than a postage stamp, can pack 512GB. Samsung Newsroom.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BGA_SSD_Main_1.jpg>)
*This tiny SSD, smaller than a postage stamp, can pack 512GB. Samsung Newsroom.*

This is the first time an entire 512 GB SSD solution has been created in a single ball grid array (BGA) package. The amazingly tiny drive, called PM971-NVMe, measures only 20mm x 16mm and weighs lighter than a dime (it weighs just about a gram). Despite its small size, it boasts of 512 GB of memory at 2.5GB write speeds.

“Samsung’s new BGA NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSD triples the performance of a typical SATA SSD, in the smallest form factor available, with storage capacity reaching up to 512GB,” said [Jung-bae Lee](<https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-mass-producing-industrys-first-512-gigabyte-nvme-ssd-in-a-single-bga-package-for-more-flexibility-in-computing-device-design>), senior vice president of the Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering Team at Samsung Electronics. “The introduction of this small-scale SSD will help global PC companies to make timely launches of slimmer, more stylish computing devices, while offering consumers a more satisfactory computing environment.”

The PM971-NVMe SSD combines 16 of Samsung’s 48-layer 256-gigabit V-NAND flash chips, a 20-nanometer 4Gb LPDDR4 mobile DRAM chip, and a high-performance Samsung controller—all squeezed into a single BGA package.

## Little Gadgets Won’t Be So Limited Anymore

![Smaller and smaller. ](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BGA_SSD_Main_2_2.jpg>)
*Samsung Newsroom*

With this size, the limits on capacity packed within gadgets such as tablets and laptops are definitely going to change.

According to their [press release](<https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-mass-producing-industrys-first-512-gigabyte-nvme-ssd-in-a-single-bga-package-for-more-flexibility-in-computing-device-design>): “The single-package SSD’s volume is approximately a hundredth of a 2.5” SSD or HDD, and its surface area is about a fifth of an M.2 SSD, allowing much more design flexibility for computing device manufacturers.”

And as far as [storage evolution](<https://futurism.com/dna-is-moving-forward-in-the-battle-for-data-storage-of-the-future>) goes, we can very well expect this technology to improve—with bigger storage capacity soon.

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