Tracking 64-layer SSDs

[Bouowmx]

Eventually, SSDs will become cheap, 1 TB/200 USD and under, one day.... Hopefully, 64-layer flash will take the market to that point.

So far, Intel SSD 545s has been released, in 512 GB and 2.5-in: Newegg

In the works are siblings Western Digital Blue 3D (Newegg) and SanDisk Ultra 3D (B&H), and Toshiba TR200 (AnandTech).

An alternative route to maximize capacity-to-price is Crucial BX300 (Tom's Hardware), a lower-cost implementation of the current MX300?


Thank you to members who contribute to this thread in the future.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Funny you mention the 1TB for $200 and under price point.

At one point, when NAND was getting cheaper and not more expensive, you could get Mushkin Reactor MLC 1TB SSDs for as low as $205 or $210 or so, on sale, at Newegg and Newegg on ebay.

Sad that this is now just a memory, and that we hope to reach that price-point again, with SSDs with even more dense geometries of NAND.

 

[Glaring_Mistake]

An alternative route to maximize capacity-to-price is Crucial BX300 (Tom's Hardware), a lower-cost implementation of the current MX300?

According to what I've read (and as it says in the link you included) the BX300 will likely use a DRAMless Silicon Motion controller.
So it's more like what the BX100 was to the MX100 (a budget unit using a Silicon Motion controller instead of a Marvell controller and using NAND binned a bit lower).
Don't know if it does use lower quality NAND than the MX300 (or others with the same NAND) (like the BX100) but if it is using a DRAMless controller it may not perform as well as the BX100.

 

[Elixer]

Well, QLC NAND will make things cheaper...at least for the OEM.
If they will pass the cost savings onto us, no idea, and in this case, I am not so sure I would want to use a QLC device, until it has been proven to be solid.

 

[Bouowmx]

Toshiba SG6: https://www.techpowerup.com/235933/...s-sata-client-ssd-utilizing-64-layer-3d-flash

256, 512, and 1024 GB, SATA 3