Seagate & Samsung Developing Enterprise SSDs

[Marcus Yam]

MLC NAND in the enterprise?

Seagate & Samsung Developing Enterprise SSDs : Read more

 

[irh_1974]

Nice to see two companies playing nice together rather than the usual rounds of litigation. Maybe the real winner here will be the consumer.

 

[webbwbb]

[citation][nom]irh_1974[/nom]Nice to see two companies playing nice together rather than the usual rounds of litigation. Maybe the real winner here will be the consumer.[/citation]

That or at the end of the agreement they will both announce suits against each other and spend years fighting each other for no apparent reason.

 

[HansVonOhain]

If I were to choose from Samsung or Seagate, I would go with Samsung... They generally have better reliability and may also have lower costs that will benefit the consumer in the enterprise category.

 

[HavoCnMe]

This is great news. When the enterprise tech starts taking off the consumer products will benefit from it and hopefully start the falling of SSD prices.

 

[unholygregor]

enterprise ssd's=big capacity=less $$ per gb =good for consumer

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]unholygregor[/nom]enterprise ssd's=big capacity=less $$ per gb =good for consumer[/citation]
I dont think that they will increase the capacity as much as you are thinking. Most enterprise servers use drives with capacities less than 500gb. they just have 8 slots or more in them to add capacity easily. With enterprise tech youre looking more at the decrease of power and heat and increasing the life cycle of the ssds. I doubt we will see sans with 14tB capacity all in SSDs any time soon. Would be cool to see a company with that kind of cash though

 

[wildwell]

It's a little early to speculate on where E-class SSD development could lead, but this partnership is nonetheless great news for the industry as a whole.

 

[Pei-chen]

So the HDD will fail twice as fast. 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25; not impressed.

 

[jsx82]

[citation][nom]Pei-chen[/nom]So the HDD will fail twice as fast. 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25; not impressed.[/citation]
uhhh what?
your math seems fine but your inference is not

 

[mikewong]

Good, expect to see cheaper SSD!

 

[husker]

Somewhat off topic, but I wonder why it is so hard to make an SSD controller. It seems that it would be harder to create a controller for regular drives that can physically direct a read head over infinitesimal magnetic bits and read them off a disk spinning at 7200 rpm or more. I realize SDD storage capacities are higher than conventional memory, but can't they just model SSD storage after existing memory controllers?

 

[dEAne]

big capacities and big bucks too and how about the reliability.

 

[catchercradle]

Such a shame that Samsung comes out as one of the companies with a bad ethical profile in Ethical consumer magazine, - that for both phones and cameras recently.