160 wasnt really bad. Id pay for that. Have trusted friend of mine do the swap. Someone needs to sell them on ebay once they are kinda available.
How long do you think untill they are readily available.
Depends really, assuming you're wanting them to the US, with the trade tariffs and such going on, I'm unsure. Generally consumer small quantity sales start cropping up about a year or so after mass production begins. In this specific instance, well, Samsung has been doing some market scummery on their prices, artificially restricting supplies, etc. That and the tariffs well, it throws everything up in the air a bit. Makes it hard to bring a product to market for reasonable prices when you've got trade wars happening.
As to people wondering about cannibalising from other devices, it's unlikely to work. The memory in your phone or SSD isn't guaranteed to be the same, as EMMC is a specific technology of memory. Think of it like trying to plug an old IDE drive into a USB port or trying to plug a VHS tape into a CD player. The interface isn't 1:1. Just because it does the same function doesn't mean the interface is the same. EMMC integrates both the storage and controller into the one chip. If your phone does that or not, I have no idea, I'm not an expert on cell phones honestly.
You can read more about EMMC at datalight's website with the following addition after the com: /solutions/technologies/emmc/comparing-emmc-to-other-flash-media
(Looks like me being a new user prevents me from posting links? So uhh, yeah, sorry for the roundabout way of giving you the link.)
The good news is that EMMC is standardised, so in theory so long as you're using an EMMC on the same EMMC version and form factory that Nintendo uses, it should work. Not that there's too many manufacturers to choose from really.
The big issue with using EMMCs from other products boils down to the different revisions of EMMC standards could lead to you having maybe more storage but much, much slower storage access speeds at best, and outright causing crashes or bricking at worst because the Switch might rely on features from the later revisions. If I'm right and the Switch uses the 5.0+ EMMCs then there's a potential for a good many problems arising.
It'd be best as I said previously to buy the 32GB replacement memory boards that are sold as replacement parts for the switch and just modify those if anyone is curious to try non-known good models of EMMC. I'd personally love to see more data collected on the subject.
An EMMC upgrade is unfortunately on my personal backburner since the grunt work has been done by the OP to provide proof of concept. I'll see where I am in a few weeks since I'm working on a more extensive hardware mod currently, but if I have the time to allocate I'll order a couple of different EMMCs and some replacement boards and get a good idea of what's up.
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