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Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014
MojoKid writes "A leaked Intel roadmap for solid state storage technology suggests the company is pushing ahead with its plans to introduce new high-end drives based on cutting-edge NAND flash. It's significant for Intel to be adopting 20nm NAND in its highest-end data center products, because of the challenges smaller NAND nodes present in terms of data retention and reliability. Intel introduced 20nm NAND lower in the product stack over a year ago, but apparently has waited till now to bring 20nm to the highest end. Reportedly, next year, Intel will debut three new drive families — the SSD Pro 2500 Series (codenamed Temple Star), the DC P3500 Series (Pleasantdale) and the DC P3700 Series (Fultondale). The Temple Star family uses the M.2 and M.25 form factors, which are meant to replace the older mSATA form factor for ultrabooks and tablets. The M.2 standard allows more space on PCBs for actual NAND storage and can interface with PCIe, SATA, and USB 3.0-attached storage in the same design. The new high-end enterprise drives, meanwhile, will hit 2TB (up from 800GB), ship in 2.5" and add-in card form factors, and offer vastly improved performance. The current DC S3700 series offers 500MBps writes and 460MBps reads. The DC P3700 will increase this to 2800MBps read and 1700MBps writes. The primary difference between the DC P3500 and DC P3700 families appears to be that the P3700 family will use Intel's High Endurance Technology (HET) MLC, while the DC P3500 family sticks with traditional MLC."
My rule for SSD hasn't changed since their invention.
Give me an SSD within the same power-of-ten size as a hard drive for the same cost and we'll talk.
Seriously. Give me a 1Tb SSD for the cost of the cheapest XTb hard drive and I'll buy it. But if hard drives get to 10Tb in that time, guess what happens? You then have to give me a 10Tb drive for the same price.
I thought that 1Tb SSD's would be with us already. The technology is out there, it just needs scaling up. We can buy them but they are STUPID prices, sometimes more than buying, say, 10x100Gb SSD's that ALL use the same chips and boards as the 1Tb SSD.
I was hoping for this Christmas but that's not going to happen either. If you want to wait until next year, guess what, the requirements go up again.
Stop pissing about with HDD technologies and just start selling SSD's of sensible prices en masse. Every time I hear the word "platters" now it pisses me off. I was hoping to be rid of them by now, not handing them more crutches.