New Crucial SSD MX100 comming soon

[Kippa]

There has been news reported by The Inquirer and other sites that Crucial are going to release an SSD using 16nm chips in June. Do you think there is any chance of Crucial releasing an 2.5" SSD with greater capacity than 1TB?

Link to the inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...-mx100-ssd-gets-detailed-ahead-of-june-launch

 

[razel]

Absolutely. What's more interesting though is to watch for firesale prices on m500s since the mx100 is the replacement.

 

[Kippa]

I would be very interested if they released an MLC based SSD that had a greater storage than 1TB even if it is only 1.2TB or 1.5TB as I am not too keen on TLC.

Tech wise can some say how much storage space could be put in a 2.5" SSD drive with 16nm MLC based chips? Even if it is just a rough guesstimate.

 

[Hellhammer]

Tech wise can some say how much storage space could be put in a 2.5" SSD drive with 16nm MLC based chips? Even if it is just a rough guesstimate.

IMFT's 16nm MLC die is still 128Gbit, so 1TB will likely be the limit but ultimately it depends on the controller.

 

[Charlie98]

Absolutely. What's more interesting though is to watch for firesale prices on m500s since the mx100 is the replacement.

I thought the M550 is the replacement for the M500...?

 

[Kippa]

IMFT's 16nm MLC die is still 128Gbit, so 1TB will likely be the limit but ultimately it depends on the controller.

I don't understand. If the chips are 16nm based and are smaller, won't the SSD be able to have more capacity? The Crucial SSD which used pre 16nm chips which I think were circa 22nm (correct me if I am wrong) had 1TB of storage space, surely if the chips are smaller Crucial could fit more that 1TB using the 16nm based chips?

Bear in mind that I am a noob when it comes to tech and am not up to speed on the internal dynamics of SSD tech.

 

[Hellhammer]

I don't understand. If the chips are 16nm based and are smaller, won't the SSD be able to have more capacity? The Crucial SSD which used pre 16nm chips which I think were circa 22nm (correct me if I am wrong) had 1TB of storage space, surely if the chips are smaller Crucial could fit more that 1TB using the 16nm based chips?

Bear in mind that I am a noob when it comes to tech and am not up to speed on the internal dynamics of SSD tech.

It's not the physical size that is the limitation. The problem is that controllers have a limited amount of dies they can talk to, which for consumer-grade controllers seem to be fixed at 64 (64x16GB=1024GB).

Every time you add more NAND, the amount of pages/blocks that need to be tracked increases, which puts more load on the controller. Thus NAND manufacturers increase the page/block sizes every couple of years so the capacities can be doubled while using the same controller designs.

 

[Managespaces]

definately. What's more interesting though is to watch for firesale prices on m500s since the mx100 is the replacement.