Samsung Intros First 3D V-NAND-based SSD, Up to 960GB

[JMcEntegart]

That didn't take long.

Samsung Intros First 3D V-NAND-based SSD, Up to 960GB : Read more

 

[alchemy69]

I wasn't expecting these to hit the market for another year or so.

 

[CaedenV]

wow, they really mean business! I wan't expecting these to come out until next calendar year at the earliest.

I guess the real question is when we are going to see consumer models, and when we are going to see these on next gen controllers that can do 2-4TB of storage... those may take a little while.

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

I thought Samsung's obsoleting technology has just been preemptively obsoleted by this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RRAM-terabyte-Crossbar-stackability-NAND-Flash,23810.html

 

[aoneone]

Can anyone please explain in a nutshell how this is better than the already 512 Gb SSD's out there? I'm assuming faster read/write cycles is that it? Thanks in advance!

 

[CrArC]

Talk about fast time to market. I can only assume they were developing this drive alongside the NAND and it was already validated and ready for production. If not, that's insane, and awesome.

Want. When are the consumer models coming out? Can we assume "fairly flippin' quickly" based on how quickly this SSD hit the market after they announced the new NAND?

 

[jonny_76]

Sounds fantastic all we know is 35k W/E cycles and density.

What are the detailed specs ?
-IOPS ?
-warranty ?
-pricing?
-mass prod availability
-tradeoffs

 

[dalethepcman]

Can anyone please explain in a nutshell how this is better than the already 512 Gb SSD's out there? I'm assuming faster read/write cycles is that it? Thanks in advance!

The benefit of this is increased density, more data in the same physical space. This should allow for slightly higher profits for Samsung and slightly lower cost's to the consumer once yields are of the appropriate proportions . Basically they can now drop 960(1024)GB into the space they used to put 480(512)GB using the same amount of silicon at the same fabrication scale(20nm).

Usually higher data transfer rates go hand in hand with increased data density, but SSD's already meet or exceed SATA3 specifications, so im not sure how much more performance you can expect until a faster bus becomes implemented.

 

[Chris Bailey]

Now if SSD prices would ever drop to the prices of harddrives

 

[simmiy]

What is the cost of this. If crossbar is as good as they say then Samsung will just buy it out.

 

[stevejnb]

Now if SSD prices would ever drop to the prices of harddrives

"ever drop"? Yeah, because it has been so long... I've seen SSD's as common consumer items for *maybe* a year and a half now. I've been buying and using hard drives for about twenty years. Hard drives are an old, established technology with decades of R&D and production cycles that went into trying to make them big and cheap. SSD's have a tiny fraction of that kind of time and resources put into them. I'm sure they'll drop in price, but they are essentially a very young technology as a primary commercial drive.

 

[rwinches]

What they have done is create solid state core memory, quite brilliant.

Article with a good slide and a little more about both V_nand RRAM
http://tech2.in.com/features/storage/storage-tech-to-look-out-for/913044

I hope both techs take off HP is said to be in the RRAM race too.