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China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: Seven of the world's top 10 smartphone vendors hail from China as does PC giant Lenovo, which is driving up the amount of NAND flash and DRAM the country consumes. This year alone, China is expected to purchase nearly 30% of the world's NAND flash and 21% of its DRAM, according to a report from TrendForce. Additionally, state-backed companies are trying to break into Western markets with SSDs. For example, Sage Microelectronics (SageMicro), a four-year-old company based in Hangzhou, China, plans to release an 8TB SSD next month that will be based on eMMC flash, and it said it will release a 10TB drive next year.
Update: 10/16 15:11 GMT by T : Note this interesting highlight from the second story linked above: SageMicron is selling not just drives that emphasize capacity over speed, but also a feature that will do doubt appeal to government agencies or private citizens intent on replicating Mission Impossible-style data wiping. The company's "Smart Destruction" function "can be set to erase encryption keys, perform a drive erase or physically fry the memory chips with a pulse of high voltage ... [and] can be triggered using a digital timer, a mobile phone instruction, or by simply pressing a button. 'Yes, it actually smokes sometimes when you push the button,' [Sage U.S. sales director Troy Rutt] said. 'People like that.'"
Almost every company in China is effectively state owned, or at least state-backed in part. They all work through and often raise debt from Bank of China, which is a *lot* more involved in day-to-day company financing than the Federal Reserve.
Confirmed.
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Broken/missing editors?
china can just devalue currency to make the price good.
Knock-offs? Knock-off of what? The Chinese drives are not knock-offs, they are uniquely branded. You seem to think that some manufacturer, or country, has a universal claim on electronic storage devices.
It will be cheap, however the statement should read:
China, plans to release an 8TB* SSD next month
*8GB operating in loop mode
It showed great growth up to 30%, but then it went back to the beginning and started overwriting itself.
Like I said over the years, China is being held down by its currency peg. They have removed it and now Chinese currency will be able to go up when the USD will go down, allowing Chinese not to absorb USA the inflation created by the USA Federal reserve and the government. I fully expect Chinese to start consuming all of the products they produce, not just Flash SSD and the prices for all consumable goods will go down in Chinese currency but up in other currencies, as the Chinese money will go up in value relative to other currencies.
Stock up on various non-perishable goods.
You can't handle the truth.
The summary says it's eMMC. MMC is basically SD cards. eMMC is embedded MMC - basically an SD card built-in.
Right now on Newegg you can get a pair of 128GB cards (256GB) for $69.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
So $280 per TB is current best pricing for MMC in Newegg.
Compare an actual SSD. Low-end best price at Newegg is $343 for a TB ($300 for 960GB), with better quality SSDs costing over $1,000.
Neither is TERRIBLY expensive for 8TB, if you really need 8TB of flash, but 8 1TB true SSDs would cost about the same as 8TB of MMC.
I genuinely fear for the US and the world when the Chinese currency finally corrects.
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
this makes no sense unless you need to dump a bunch of memory cards, who would want this?
like making a raid from a bunch of thumb drives LOL
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2990446/data-storage-solutions/chinese-ssd-maker-eyes-us-market-for-8tb-drive-intro.html
The article said a 5TB SSD from the same company was "north of $5,000". So, somewhere in that range.
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Well, one of the problems mentioned in the article is that this SSD will not have cache RAM. So it is projected to be slow. Slow equals "not as good".
There are many ways to make something poorly.
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and girls with the peace sign. welcome to china! Selfie stick central!
I can't tell if this is a troll or ignorance.
Reliability? They are not 100%, but they have come a long since even a few years ago. In fact, they are more reliable than hard drives now, especially in conditions where shock is an issue (laptops.)
The difference is especially visible with virtualization. Stick a 7200 RPM SSD in place of a HDD, and VM performance will distinctly improve, just because the SSD can handle the random I/O, while the HDD is still spinning, waiting for access to the tracks with an empty cache.
I've never heard of an SSD with moving parts...
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Is a slow catepillar truck having poor quality compared to ferrari? I bet 8TB disk has many uses and desktop drive is not one of the most important of those.
confirmed.
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8 TB on a single SSD is great and all, but I'd rather that the flash manufacturers focus on moving their mainstream interfaces over to SAS3 like the enterprise storage world has done. What good is all of this fast storage on a single drive if you're capped by the bandwidth of the drive's interface?
I suspect the editors are missing links.
Darn. Now I've got the theme tune from that stupid film in my head.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Reliability will suck too as they are using SD card chips rather than the flash chips used in modern SSD.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Most people aren't as technically astute as slashdotters. These will be marketed and return side-by-side with quality drives. No doubt less tech savy consumers will do what they've always done and look at capacity vs price. To them SSD just means blazing fast.
They won't know these are sub-par scams piggy backing on the current buzzwords. Giant SD cards pretending to be the latest SSD chips and with no cache.
Those disks are almost purely enterprise SSD's, not for consumer.
Enterprises are just another class of consumers.
What could possibly go wrong with a data-center full of self-destructing drives?
And the company says that the drives aren't as fast. They aren't claiming it. They've made the decision to have a large and slow drive versus a small and fast one. They are being open about the design choices they have made.
I prefer spending the extra and getting the 15k RPM SSDs.