Toshiba’s new NVMe BG3 SSDs are being advertised as the world’s thinnest, being a DRAM-less design. Strangely, I can’t find any dimensions listed despite the talk on how small and light they are (aside from being 1.3mm high), but there is plenty of wording on performance: they will be boosting mobile and IoT computing with up to 1520 MB/s sequential read and up to 840 MB/s sequential write.



Toshiba’s BG3 series leverages the Host Memory Buffer (HMB) feature in NVMe Revision 1.2.1 to maintain high performance without integrated DRAM by using host memory for flash management purposes. This powerful combination allows devices to harness the performance of NVMe storage while maximizing footprint and affordability to deliver a next-generation mobile experience to end users. Both fast and economical, these miniaturized SSDs also offer data center and enterprise applications an alternative solution for server boot storage.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Toshiba Unveils World’s Thinnest SSDs