Is there a revolution in SSDs coming?

[Caveman]

Just wondering if things are going to take a quantum leap here soon based on falling prices...

About to by a 960GB MX500 for $279. Seems like a great deal or should I wait for a bit?

 

[Elixer]

Do you need it *now*?
There are going to be a ton of TLC NAND SSDs here pretty quickly, so, no idea how fast the prices will drop.

 

[rcarlos243]

In terms of performance, PCIe NVMe should drop in price ones it is mass produced.

It is about 5x faster than a traditional SATA III 6GB/s SSD.

 

[stuff_me_good]

In terms of performance, PCIe NVMe should drop in price ones it is mass produced.

It is about 5x faster than a traditional SATA III 6GB/s SSD.

Yeah, but what and when? I've read that excuse for two years now.

 

[R0H1T]

In terms of performance, PCIe NVMe should drop in price ones it is mass produced.

It is about 5x faster than a traditional SATA III 6GB/s SSD.

More like 4~5x sequential reads & 3~4 for sequential writes & I'm talking about consumer grade SSD's like the Intel 750 & SM951.

Yeah, but what and when? I've read that excuse for two years now.

Probably another 2~3yrs till the time PCIe 4.0 becomes mainstream, please remember that PCIe SSD's are majorly limited by the number of PCIe lanes a consumer (non HEDT?) CPU let's them have & so till the time we get past that limitation NVMe drives are not going to become mainstream anytime soon.

 

[Caveman]

Thanks for responses.

So, it sounds like: Go for that MX500 now at a giveaway price, and think of upgrading 2-3 years from now when the new technology that's here now it mature...

I always try to time my buys to get proven tech as it hits the bottom of the State of the Art Slide, and the price is at a mid/low range for its life... That seems to happen 1-2 years after a product is released...

 

[FxSoap]

Is there a chance of a brand new tech coming out that isn't NAND or TLC or anything?

I read a reddit article about 6ish months ago about scientists creating a new storage medium based on the design of pineapples...

 

[GAO]

Is there a chance of a brand new tech coming out that isn't NAND or TLC or anything?

I read a reddit article about 6ish months ago about scientists creating a new storage medium based on the design of pineapples...

Phase change memory.

 

[AlienTech]

I highly doubt they will bring out new types before current technology is out of date. It has always been that way. They have spent s much money on things that they will milk it for all its worth until they can not improve it any longer. They already have quite a few different storage technologies in the works but I doubt we will see any in mass production for another 5-10 years at least. They are even doing limited releases on some of them.

Which is why they retiring plasma screens was such a shock.. Its all LCD's now. None of the old BETA v/s VHS stuff.. They ALL use the same thing.. But that also means the amount of money sunk into something is huge. It has gone from taking decades for something to get into the mass market to like 1 or 2 years now.

 

[fortworthtechs]

I don't notice any revolution in SSDs. I don't know is I am right if I am excepting something new in it.

 

[The Day Dreamer]

Hope it comes soon. tired of these sector failing hard disk. WD, Segate, Samsung, all of them are failing me.

 

[corkyg]

IMHO it is more like evolution.

 

[bradly1101]

More like 4~5x sequential reads & 3~4 for sequential writes & I'm talking about consumer grade SSD's like the Intel 750 & SM951.Probably another 2~3yrs till the time PCIe 4.0 becomes mainstream, please remember that PCIe SSD's are majorly limited by the number of PCIe lanes a consumer (non HEDT?) CPU let's them have & so till the time we get past that limitation NVMe drives are not going to become mainstream anytime soon.

We only need PCIe 3.0 for NVMe, and any upper-end chipset from X79 to Z97 and X99 can give an NVMe SSD all the CPU lanes it needs. At $1/GB it's not for everyone, and there is a 400GB model that doesn't break the bank. That's what I'm using on X79. When I went from a four-drive Raptor array to an SATA III SSD I was unimpressed by the speed. With this 750 it's a different story altogether. The revolution is here.