Micron's new terabyte-class SSD is under $600

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I may hold off upgrading my SSD if this is available soon.

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Crucial M500 Specifications
Controller Marvell 88SS9187
NAND Micron 20nm MLC NAND
Form Factor: 2.5", mSATA, M.2 2.5", mSATA, M.2, 2.5", mSATA, M.2, 2.5"
Raw NAND Capacity 1024GiB
User Capacity 960GB
Sequential Read 500MB/s
Sequential Write 400MB/s
4K Random Read 80K IOPS
4K Random Write 80K IOPS
Warranty 3 years
 
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depends on price for me as i have 2 x 256 now and cheaper than that so unless speed equals same or faster and not much more it wouldn't be worth it, but they will come down in the end, like all parts do

£371.75 British Pound Sterling

jesus thought it said 500gb, forget all above for 1tb yes put me down for one, must be blind at that price

great find :)
 
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that's without VAT, and it's also 'murica prices. it'll probably be 50p a gb at best.
and fyi mushkin is also coming out with a 960gb drive. seems this is the year tb ssds finally come along (and hopefully push down 480/512gb ssds into reasonable pricing)
 
would you really wanna put 1tb of precious data on an ssd?

far easier n simply to have a small ssd/os and hdd's for everything else?
 
Would love a 500gb version of this. For me and many others who backup data stability isn't an issue
 
I have more faith in SSDs than in hard drives as far as reliability goes. Probably because I'm on my forth SSD without any issues whatsoever while hard drives continue to drop like flies. Besides, everything is backed up anyway.
 
wazza300 said:
would you really wanna put 1tb of precious data on an ssd?

far easier n simply to have a small ssd/os and hdd's for everything else?
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Everything is relative, personally I cant wait till these are available as i have a few 2tb drives that i use as storage and could use a 1tb ssd :)
 
As a sweeping generalisation I have found that SSD's would tend to suffer a sudden death syndrome and a mechanical HD will start to creek, click and groan, giving some sort of warning of impending failure. There are, of course, many exceptions to that but until I start to believe in the longevity of the SSD drives I could not see me wanting a larger capacity one over that of a mechanical drive.
 
the1gooner said:
Yes they are ready and will last quite a few years even with high amounts of data being used on them.
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Indeed, the only issue is cost, there's nothing to suggest that SSDs are less reliable than mechanical drives and if it's a storage drive, cell writes should never be a problem anyway.
 
1TB SSD + Steam = heaven.

Probably won't be affordable (for me) at launch but i'd definitely pick one up once prices eventually dropped.
 
Jokester said:
Indeed, the only issue is cost, there's nothing to suggest that SSDs are less reliable than mechanical drives and if it's a storage drive, cell writes should never be a problem anyway.
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I would much prefer storage on mechanicals. An SSD dies (and you are an idiot for not backing up, we know!) and its dead. A mechanical fails, you generally get a warning, and/or can be rescued.
 
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