K9PFG08U5M 32GB Flash USB hack?

[themacman33]

I salvaged 2 32GB flash chips from an old iPad. I feel like I should use these. Is there any way to use this as a 32GB flash drive? Can I graft it into an existing USB drive? I feel like I should try to use this big chunk of storage.
Is there any way at all?
Thanks, Mac

[marshallh]

Nope, not really.

If you were super motivated you could source chips and the corresponding factory software tools from a company like Phison and make a custom pcb.
These NAND chips require very complex controller chips to operate. You also can't splice them into another usb drive, the controller and memory are too tightly related.

It used to be you could wire NANDs up to xD card readers, but those days are long gone.

[amyk]

The commands and interface for NAND flash are pretty standard and well-documented, so you should be able to hook it up to e.g. an Arduino (beware, this a 3.3V part) and be able to read/write it... but making effective use of the device i.e. bad block management/wear leveling will be the difficult part.

[themacman33]

Ok, so is there any reason to keep them? I couldn't use them as general purpose storage for an AVR/PIC?

[wraper]

Ok, so is there any reason to keep them? I couldn't use them as general purpose storage for an AVR/PIC?

It would be much easier to just use microSD for that purpose.