Intel Confirms 25nm NAND Flash for New SSDs

[zaznet]

[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]his should allow for SSD's that are twice the size of current models.[/citation]

They weren't running out of room to begin with. Until prices drop to bring demand up for the larger capacities I don't expect to SSD's jumping in capacity. It's all about finding the right price point while making as much per chip as they can for as long as they can.

 

[gti88]

Anyway, it's not smart to use an SSD as a music/video storage.

 

[MaxTesla]

Skynet is moving closer, with smaller and smaller chips it is only a matter of time

 

[MaxTesla]

Skynet is moving closer, with smaller and smaller chips it is only a matter of time

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]kelemvor4[/nom]What's with rating something by the number of songs it can hold anyway, that's kind of arbitrary; over the years I've seen mp3's under a meg and some over 50mb....[/citation]
I suppose its an average, not every song is "Dark Star" from the Live Dead album by the Grateful Dead.
Similarly not all songs are those annoying 15 second "skits" that sit as annoying filler on hip-hop albums like "Com 1" on Master P's Good Side Bad Side album.
If you average out all the endless droning pop chart dross that gets churned out every day it's an average 3.9 minutes or so, combined with the most frequently used bitrates and you get an average file size.
Bingo, 8Gb stores 2000 songs.

 

[hannibal]

Dammit I just bought the 160GB X25-M...

Don't worry. These will be expensive like h... for some time.
But in long run the prizes will come down... (per GB of cource)

 

[aaron686]

Hopefully "old" SSD's will go down in price...
/waiting

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Sweet, prices will start to go down. =)

 

[silky salamandr]

I knew something was up when the egg has been slashing prices on all the intel ssd's. I have an 80g and have been waiting to see what gen3 of the intel lineup was gonna look like. They have been getting killed by the new Sandforce controller and I almost jumped ship. But really what I and others want it a damn trim command that can be passed onto raid. I kinda think we need to solve current problems first before making new ones.

 

[aznpwned]

When can we start to see these chips hitting the SSD market?

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]Prices??? SSD prices are already very cheap. What we need is better performance. Today's SSD's give good IOPS, but the throughput is inconsistent. Also the capacities are very small. Prices are fine, I just want more space and more consistent performance. SSD will remain a niche product until then.[/citation]

I read an article a while back about Intels 25nm SATA III SSDs getting almost max SATA III performance in testing. If so, that would be nearing 600MB/s per drive which would be fine by me considering most HDDs on SATA II barley hit 100MB/s of the full 300MB/s.

 

[dimar]

"old up to 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos or 8 hours of video."
Never got this one, how do they exactly calculate it????
8GB/s bit-rate would fit only 1 second of video 🙂

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]"old up to 2,000 songs, 7,000 photos or 8 hours of video."Never got this one, how do they exactly calculate it????8GB/s bit-rate would fit only 1 second of video 🙂[/citation]
Good luck playing that video back smoothly as well...

 

[cauchy2k]

Intel is the corp I trust,so Intel's gonna be my 25nm SSD unit

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I am having a difficult time trying to figure out if this will eventually be a good deal or not. Right now it is too expensive.

 

[danwat1234]

Well, the Sandforce 2000 chip will give the G3 a beating.
G3:
Sequential Read: 250MB/s
Sequential Write:170MB/s
read IOPS: 50K
write IOPS:40K
Security: AES-128

Sandforce 2000:
Sequential Read: 500MB/s
Sequential Write:500MB/s
read IOPS: 60K
write IOPS:60K
Security: AES-256


Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3971/s...and-60k-iops/1