intel ssd roadmap?

I posted this in the Revodrive bench thread.

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It's the reason I am waiting to buy a SSD. Was otherwise going to buy a C300 AND a vertex 2E end of the month.
 
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wow. 300GBs. Same price as the current drives?

novemberish timeframe aswell. Perfect!

thanks for the pic. Whats everyones thoughts on it?
 
FabienO said:
I posted this in the Revodrive bench thread.

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It's the reason I am waiting to buy a SSD. Was otherwise going to buy a C300 AND a vertex 2E end of the month.
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Yes same here. I'm in a position that I can buy a SSD at the end of this month, but thinking I should wait till at least a few months to see what Intel come up with.
Decisions decisions!
 
wow, i was seriously considering getting the 256MB C300 next month, i think i might jsut wait now.

wander what the price for the 600gb is gonna be
 
Yea a 400GB SLC based drive is going to command a hefty price tag - still it's nice to see the tech moving forward!

/assuming I'm reading the chart correctly as it might not be SLC!
 
TheOtherOption said:
Yea a 400GB SLC based drive is going to command a hefty price tag - still it's nice to see the tech moving forward!

/assuming I'm reading the chart correctly as it might not be SLC!
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If they key in the chart is correct it'll be enterprise grade MLC. Still pricey but not as much as SLC.

2x X25M 600GB for storage - 1x X25-V 40GB for OS. Tasty.
 
Nothing really in this roadmap that we didn't already know months ago, apart from the new enterprise drives.
My thinking is that there is no such thing as "enterprise grade MLC nand", all they'll have done is massively overprovision instead. There's also a chance that the enterprise controller might have a few more channels too to boost write speeds.
 
We can learn even more than we already knew from this roadmap. Timeframe and features are more precise for a start.

Zarf said:
My thinking is that there is no such thing as "enterprise grade MLC nand", all they'll have done is massively overprovision instead. There's also a chance that the enterprise controller might have a few more channels too to boost write speeds.
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Possibly, I would say it's likely to be a comobo of both. As the capacity goes up there comes a point where it's not practical to just overprovision. There are so many complex processes to making NAND, it wouldn't supprise me if they can make higher grade NAND.


Exciting times anyway, next year is going to be interesting.
 
They are gone be Sata 3 for sure, or how can they get faster reads then we have already with Sata 2 the max is about 285Mb/s and so to get similar or more then the C300 you need Sata 3
 
madindehead said:
Lovely to see 600GB SSDs coming to the market! Wonder how much they will set us back? :p
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I'd be surprised to see them at less than £800. Going from 34nm to 25nm only increases the number of chips per wafer by around a third, and wafers themselves cost more at smaller processes.

Edit: Looking around a bit more, it appears that they've also moved from 32Gb to 64Gb per chip, which helps increase the controlling circuitry to nand cell ratio so that overall they are doubling the GB per wafer from the 34nm generation, So we might see the 600GB drive launch around £650.
Intel do have a healthy margin on the drives though, if Samsung and Toshiba manage to catch up and start a price war we could easily see prices below £1/GB.
 
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The 160GB and 300GB drives should be fairly good though. If they are staying the same as the current 80 and 160GB drives in price that is. That makes it closer to £1/GB, which is getting a lot better. Middle/end of 2012 we might see pretty affordable large SSDs, and see them becoming a bit more mainstream! Would be nice :) When the new ones are released, I might see myself upgrading for my OS.
 
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