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They also go out of their way to make their devices more expensive for no real reason.
Apple doesn't use custom tech for those SSDs. They're still normal NVMe drives using the exact same controllers on the motherboard and the drive. They just rearranged the physical connector so you can't easily swap in a non-apple replacement (and save hundreds of dollars doing so).
This is a hill I will die on. Apple is anti-consumer, but they're cool so it's whatever apparently.
That's wholly incorrect.
Apple moved the controller to the SoC. The drives aren't NVMe drives, they're raw NAND carrier boards...
If that was the case,
Then the NVMe adapters that convert standard m.2 NVMe drives to the Apple SSD pinout wouldn't work. Things like this:
But they do, because the apple silicone is expecting to talk to an NVMe controller in the SSD with the same communications protocols.
Unless you've got some technical documentation to back that up?
Bruh... 2016-17. That's NOT Apple Silicon 🤦♂️
But it are still proprietary connectors that serve no purpose.