The Countdown To A Revolution In SSDs Has Begun

larger size, cheaper prices

or just even more speed for a higher price ?
 
So, the site is by intel.

Let me guess.

A gimped consumer version of the SSD DC P3700 with full NVMe support, optimized for consumer workloads?
 
600 MB transfer rate!
START THE MEDIA HYPE TRAIN!
;)

Really hoping something legit is announced by Intel, and it isn't just some marginal improvement on existing tech.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041503775 said:
So, the site is by intel.

Let me guess.

A gimped consumer version of the SSD DC P3700 with full NVMe support, optimized for consumer workloads?
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Not sure if you are mad or happy about this...and gimped is a funny word for a product that will likely be price competitive with other pcie solutions.
 
Could it be several orders of magnitudes improvement on SSD r/w latency?

Could it be non-volatile RAM without performance loss and unlimited cycles?

Could it be graphene-based technology?
 
Kaos_Drem said:
Not sure if you are mad or happy about this...and gimped is a funny word for a product that will likely be price competitive with other pcie solutions.
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Neither mad nor happy. Just trying to make an educated guess at predicting what it is they are launching, based on their known tech.

I used the term gimped simply to imply that it will be lacking some features of the server product, presumably such as the battery backed write cache that server SSD's typically use. Possibly other features too, based on binning.
 
Is this having to do with overclocking like they promised late last year?
 
Would true "revolution" be posted through a "gaming" page? I think not. I'm not expecting a lot from this.
 
The video on the bottom of the page clearly shows that it is a consumer-level NVMe product, so I'm inclined to believe this:
Zarathustra[H];1041503775 said:
So, the site is by intel.

Let me guess.

A gimped consumer version of the SSD DC P3700 with full NVMe support, optimized for consumer workloads?
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Hmm maybe some new M2 ssds? Can't wait to see what will be released!
 
Armenius said:
The video on the bottom of the page clearly shows that it is a consumer-level NVMe product, so I'm inclined to believe this:
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I saw a video from CES or PAX, I think it was from LinusTechTips, that had that countdown clock and in the discussion with the Intel rep sort of suggested a consumer level NVMe product.
 
I'm guessing it's going to be the Intel 750 Series SSD. Just a guess though.
 
300mb/s random read / writes on 1 ssd is all that would surprise me at this point.

Maybe an SLI PCI SSD type thing?
 
Domingo said:
How about an affordable 1+TB M2-based SSD?
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Just like GabeN is incapable of counting to 3, SSD manufacturers are incapable of counting to 2. Hence why after all these years we still don't have SSD larger than 1TB.
 
I'm easy to please. Give me 3-4 times the transfer speed of a spindle disk on a 1TB SSD for under $200.
 
So it's an NVMe PCIe SSD.

BFD.

If I was in the market for a new motherboard that had NVMe support I'd be interested. Right now I'll stick with my AHCI based PCIe SSD that's already plenty stupid fast.
 
Intel's video shows NVME SSD. Can't wait for 3000 MB/sec reads and 1500+ MB/sec writes :D
 
revolutionary would be 1 tb drives at the 100$ price range, otherwise they need to stop using the word revolutionary
 
Raudulfr said:
Just like GabeN is incapable of counting to 3, SSD manufacturers are incapable of counting to 2. Hence why after all these years we still don't have SSD larger than 1TB.
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All these years? Viable consumer level SDDs haven't really been around all that long, look how much longer standard HDDs have been around and they have only recently broken 6TB in size.

As for SSDs over 1TB I suspect that has far more to do with the limited market, especially considering what they would cost, more than any issues with the tech. Since the start of 2014 the price per GB of SSD has been slashed by more than 50% (from over $1 per GB to less then $0.50 per GB, the 1TB Samsung 850 EVO is only $369 on Amazon.)
 
"Revolutionary" would be a different technology than Flash memory. Something with no deterioration or wear would be nice. Speed doesn't concern me as much as the volatility of NAND as the process gets smaller.
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
All these years? Viable consumer level SDDs haven't really been around all that long, look how much longer standard HDDs have been around and they have only recently broken 6TB in size.
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Consumer-level 960GB SSD have been available for 2 years (Crucial M500). Hell, 960GB PCIe SSD have been available for more than 4 years (OCZ RevoDrive X2).

So, yes, "all these years" is a correct statement.
 
Raudulfr said:
Just like GabeN is incapable of counting to 3, SSD manufacturers are incapable of counting to 2. Hence why after all these years we still don't have SSD larger than 1TB.
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I don't understand why anyone would need an SSD that large.

Small fast drive for boot and games, mass storage on slower spinning media.

Using huge terabyte sized flash based drives to store static data is just a waste.

My recent builds all just have one small SSD in them, with all the storage on the NAS in the basement.

128GB would be enough, if not for the fact that I dual boot, Windows and Linux, so I have a 256GB drive, which I split half and half.

I probably shouldn't split half an half though, as windows always uses many times more storage space for the same thing.

I could probably get away giving Linux 60GB and the rest to Windows. In fact, I could get away with 15GB for Linux, if not for the Windows 7 virtual machine image I store under it :p
 
Valnar said:
"Revolutionary" would be a different technology than Flash memory. Something with no deterioration or wear would be nice. Speed doesn't concern me as much as the volatility of NAND as the process gets smaller.
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Agreed. This would be more of a small evolution.

Someone gave the marketing idiots too much leeway again :p
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
All these years? Viable consumer level SDDs haven't really been around all that long,
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Umm.. I got my first 120GB OCZ Agility at a firesale bargain for ~$300 in early 2010. been on SSD's for 5 years now.

I don't know how many years it takes to start calling things "all these years", but 5 doesn't seem like a bad starting point :p
 
Zarathustra[H];1041504051 said:
Agreed. This would be more of a small evolution.

Someone gave the marketing idiots too much leeway again :p
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I dunno. NVMe still gives us a better interface that could then be used by the next innovation in flash or whatever comes post-flash.
 
Storage is now embedded in Intel CPU eliminating a need for slow PCIe or SATA bus interfaces.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041504049 said:
I don't understand why anyone would need an SSD that large.

Small fast drive for boot and games, mass storage on slower spinning media.

Using huge terabyte sized flash based drives to store static data is just a waste.

My recent builds all just have one small SSD in them, with all the storage on the NAS in the basement.

128GB would be enough, if not for the fact that I dual boot, Windows and Linux, so I have a 256GB drive, which I split half and half.

I probably shouldn't split half an half though, as windows always uses many times more storage space for the same thing.

I could probably get away giving Linux 60GB and the rest to Windows. In fact, I could get away with 15GB for Linux, if not for the Windows 7 virtual machine image I store under it :p
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This is something I cannot seem to pound into peoples skulls.
 
Dregan73 said:
revolutionary would be 1 tb drives at the 100$ price range, otherwise they need to stop using the word revolutionary
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just like they should stop using the word "slam" and "hot" and saying "we r the #1 company" and "<name of something> is dying" (where <name of something> could be gaming, consoles, computers, desktops and laptops, tablets, cellphones, you name it) and "viagra" and
 
I need another SSD and I like Intel drives, so hopefully this is reasonably priced, whatever it is.
 
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