Intel, Micron First to Triple Level Cell 25nm NAND

[Guest]

LOL, I like the double rainbow reference ..... "what does it mean?", for those who dont know visit youtube and type double rainbow in the search bar

 

[Dkz]

Yeay! SDDs prices going down! Dream come true!
or still a dream? 🙁

 

[mlopinto2k1]

This type of innovation will keep going on, forever. If they hit a brickwall, they will break it down or find a way to go around or climb it. Always have, always will. Until of course, that meteor in 2012 hits Earth.

 

[Matthias99]

"Why haven't they came out with a 3.5" form factor drive in masse? It would seen that it would be the most cost effective for price /performance, unless its just cheaper to mass produce the 2.5's?"

Flash chips are very compact. If they made 3.5" drives, the inside of it would be mostly empty space.

They make 2.5" drives because they can be used in both desktops and laptops, and SSDs are very popular for laptops because they use so little power. There's no real reason to make both, since you can always use an adapter bracket to put a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" desktop bay.

It'll be interesting to see the pricing and performance numbers on these. Probably slower than MLC... but it'll still blow the doors off any mechanical hard disk, especially at heavy random seek tasks like accessing multiple files or applications at once.

 

[dark_lord69]

Good! I've been wanting a 16GB flash drive but they currently cost too much and the prices stopped going down. This new technology will help. If they can get this ready by the end of the year perhaps I can buy a 16GB flash drive around X-Mas.

 

[Guest]

In the article it states that the technology is meant for USB \ SD \ etc, ERGO, it's meant for slower performing hardware. Not for SSD drives.

 

[milktea]

I doNOT want to buy slower SSD. I also doNOT want to buy slower flash memory like SDHC/XC.

 

[dEAne]

I love this one. I guess the wait is little bit for the price to drop.

 

[martel80]

"triple-level-cell"???
Last time I checked, you needed 8 levels to encode 3 bits (2^3), not 3 or any multiple of 3.

 

[beayn]

3LC would be a better name for this than TLC

 

[blazeorangeman]

Imagine a 1TB SD Card...to go with your 1 Gigapixel Digital Camera....

so exciting

 

[Guest]

You guys obviously didn't read the previous article a couple days before this one regarding the Micron SLC drive, http://www.tomshardware.com/news/SSD-SATA-RealSSD-MLC-NAND,11085.html

 

[agnickolov]

[citation][nom]beayn[/nom]3LC would be a better name for this than TLC[/citation]
Perhaps the other acronyms need updating as well to avoid confusion:
1LC = SLC
2LC = MLC
3LC = TLC

 

[Guest]

Triple level cells should be very slow in IOPS!
Writing files on them (continuously) on empty cell sectors should not be much faster than MLC, but writing small bits on cells that already contain data,should go very slow.

Again,great for reading an OS from, but not when the OS continuously writes to the disk.

 

[alexcheng]

One day we're going to need a new unit man... like... Micronanometer or something. LOL!!

 

[brando56894]

Im with everyone else, I could care less about capacity if it slows down the performance.

 

[ererr10]

Wow, i was looking at graphics cards still at 40nm. I didnt know they even had 25nm yet. Now i can get an 8 tb flash drive lol