But for the “next generation” (I don’t mean NGFF/M.2) of “newest crop” BGA dime-sized SSD media, let’s equip an enclosure for THAT with Thunderbolt 3 and a USB-C port, giving us > 4 GB/sec throughput to a TB3-enabled host! Again, more and more laptops/desktops are equipped with Thunderbolt 3 (and will be in the present and near-future), so let’s develop newer solid-state storage to work externally (in enclosures) with today’s and tomorrow’s interfaces. Warp factor 9, Captain!

I’ve been trying to do something similar with M.2 2280 drives and their similar-sized enclosures, but all such enclosures I can find max out at SATA 3 speeds (550 – 600 MB/sec), as they are B-keyed/for SATA-based M.2 SSDs. It seems nobody makes an M.2 enclosure for 2280 PCIe SSD (I’ll say it again, PCIe, not SATA) with an M-key interface for PCIe 2.0 or 3.0 4-lane media, AND a USB-C Gen 2 output port. Such media might be a bit faster (I’ve seen 2580 MB/sec read, 1540 MB/sec write on the wicked-fast PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 media, but that’s darn expensive) than the interface, but I want to saturate that USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface at >1GB/sec. I’m on the right track here, I know it, but nobody makes these enclosures. Somebody, PLEASE, build us such wonderful (tiny) USB 3.1-out NVMe-based M.2 SSD enclosures, the market is very hungry for them! Then, do it again for the tiny BGA SSDs and say goodbye to the slowish thumb drive media we have today. Just “jack in” your dime-sized and boot in five seconds: Woo hoo!