Next article in the framework 16 deep dive posts is out
2 x SO-DIMM DDR5 with support up to 64GB total.
1 x m.2 2280 nvme 1 x m.2 2230 nvme
Interesting options on the storage front
Did we have any idea about the 2230 until today?
I don’t think so, but interesting what they said about adding a 2230 option in the store last year in preparation for the 16.
Not that im aware of. Only if you can extrapolate from the enclosure and start theorizing spacing of components.
I’m not ecstatic about them using ADATA but I hope QC and good chip selection could eliminate any significant issues.
Does ADATA have bad rep?
Used to when I was in hardware service and sales, but that was back in 2008-9. We mostly dealt with their flash media at the time such as SD cards. The running joke was, customer asks why are the ADATA cards so cheap, someone answers - there’s 50/50 chance it’ll lose your data. That arose from really high return rates. They’d just die on people randomly. It wasn’t a single batch issue either. They’re probably different today. RAM is hard to screw up too. Just don’t scrape the bottom of the barrel for chips. Yes I know OCZ managed to screw RAM spectacularly, but in this case it sounds like Framework will choose the chips. They’ve mentioned they’ll be using SK Hynix.
E: Aaah good old OCZ. We used to diagnose random crashes with a single question - “Do you have OCZ RAM?”. If yes, 9 out of 10 times Memtest86+ would confirm bad RAM. At some point we stopped even testing it, just straight replaced the RAM with something sane and the customer never came back till they needed an upgrade. Here’s a receipt from a case where a computer came with a few desoldred chips in an OCZ module. It came apart:
That’s a yikers. Really hoping Framework doesn’t lose their rep over this, I know they do basic QC but that’s only 2 days running random stress programs, i.e. not exactly what you’d want to run on RAM or an SSD
Oof, this is looking to be one expensive laptop
