NVMe 1.2 Redefines SSD Design As Marvell Releases HBM SSD Controller

[Guest]

Marvell released its 88NV1140 SSD controller at CES 2016 in a move that will likely lead to a sweeping change in the way manufacturers design SSDs.

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[nitrium]

Headline has HBM (aka High Bandwidth Memory), but article only talks about HMB (Host Memory Buffer).
"NVMe 1.2 Redefines SSD Design As Marvell Releases HBM SSD Controller".

 

[PaulyAlcorn]

Thanks nitrium, article title corrected.
Too bad it isn't an HBM controller for an SSD though, now that would be saucy.

 

[sucre]

Saucy maybe, but everything that throwing a hot dog down a hallway is.

 

[mvasovski]

Bill of Materials...

 

[alextheblue]

Great let's chew up system RAM for the sake of cheaper SSDs. Now slap it in a pile of cheap OEM 2-in-1s with not-quite-enough slow-as-dirt single-channel memory and an iGPU to share it all with. Awesome. Here's hoping 8GB of DDR4 becomes the new baseline in the near future.

Still, I guess it beats what they normally do, which is stuff a mechanical drive in them and laugh maniacally.

 

[Sakkura]

After the last image:

"The nature of NAND density improvements, which occur with each successive generation, help address the need to consume less real estate, but removing the dedicated NAND package is a huge step forward."

I think you mean removing the dedicated DRAM package.

 

[DrakeFS]

Great let's chew up system RAM for the sake of cheaper SSDs. Now slap it in a pile of cheap OEM 2-in-1s with not-quite-enough slow-as-dirt single-channel memory and an iGPU to share it all with. Awesome. Here's hoping 8GB of DDR4 becomes the new baseline in the near future.

Still, I guess it beats what they normally do, which is stuff a mechanical drive in them and laugh maniacally.

I haven't built or bought a system with less than 8GB of ram in a long time. And if you are purchasing cheap OEM systems, lets be honest, performance is not your main concern.

 

[ssdpro]

I'm with Alex the blue. I want my data in non-volatile storage as quickly as possible. We already have file system caching. Now to increase profit on the mfg side they skimp on the internal DRAM and hold it in memory longer. I want a one stop solution, not a cobbled janky piecemeal gadget.