WD Launches SLC-based SSD for Heavy Duty Use

[Marcus Yam]

This SSD has the SLC for your serious needs.

WD Launches SLC-based SSD for Heavy Duty Use : Read more

 

[dogofwars]

WD estimates that the N1x would go through a write cycle of 701.4GB per day, while the consumer SiliconEdge Blue drive would do less than a tenth of that at 70GB per day

Not so sure about that, it's really conservative measure! And where did they get the 1.4GB? For credibility??

 

[scook9]

competition is good for prices in the ssd market, which we need

 

[retirepresident]

Yes,More competition hopefully it will bring the cost down. What happen to Sata III 6gs SSD.

 

[kravmaga]

[citation][nom]dogofwars[/nom]Not so sure about that, it's really conservative measure! And where did they get the 1.4GB? For credibility??[/citation]

Wild guess: they took the SLC chips' rewrite numbers and the same MTBF of 1,400,000 hours figure then divided and converted into days...

If memory serves, SLC flash drives are supposed to be about 50% faster at writes and 10 times more durable to rewrites so those figures don't sound farfetched at all.

 

[mfarrukh]

Looks cool.
Too Bad, I can't afford it

 

[anamaniac]

Nice, too bad there's one problem. Weren't SLC drives supposed to be faster?

 

[descendency]

ZzzzzZZzzzzzzZZzzzz

Why is one of the largest HD makers in the world making boring SSDs? these would have been competitive before the OCZ Vertex and Intel X25-M/E drives came out, but now, they are middle of the pack at best.

WD... get off your butt and do something. Impress us.

Far too expensive compared to competition.
Low end performance.
Not worth the time.
Will probably have similar bugs to the X25E at launch.

 

[kartu]

When are prices expected to drop significally? What are the manufacturing costs for SSDs, anyone?

 

[Guest]

darn! Our company has a write cycle of 701.42GB per day. We'll be having a board meeting on Monday do discuss if we can deal with the 0.02GB excess