This has been the case for a while already. Even spinning-platter hard disks had some reasonably powerful CPUs to implement caching, bad-block remapping, and SMART data retention (among other features); SSDs pushed this to another level by demanding higher performance and more complex remapping.
Chances are that this Samsung device isn't even using different hardware from their standard SSDs -- just different firmware.
Chances are that this Samsung device isn't even using different hardware from their standard SSDs -- just different firmware.
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