Comments on: Intel’s Rob Crooke Speaks of 3D Memory and 10TB SSDs – 2014 Intel Investor Meeting

By: Benjamin Hojnik

Benjamin Hojnik — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:39:00 +0000

In reply to gringo.

>Maybe in the next 5 years or so we’ll actually get like 2-3 TB for 300 dollars.

Its not gonna take that long. Right now, you can get 1TB for as little as 360$.
I’m betting 2 years tops before 2TB hit 300$.

By: gringo

gringo — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:29:00 +0000

Maybe in the next 5 years or so we’ll actually get like 2-3 TB for 300 dollars. Not top notch performance, but certainly much better than HDD access times, transfer speeds, random r/w workloads, and ruggedness. But I know I’m optimistic. HDDs seem to have hit a wall as to how much they can store per square inch, and they have to use helium, and shingled recording to overcome limitations.
TLDR: Let’s hope for 2-3TB at a reasonable price point in the near future.

By: Benjamin Hojnik

Benjamin Hojnik — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 08:22:00 +0000

In reply to Zzyzx. To be fair, performance degradation bug (which in its core will never be really fixed at 1x nm TLC) didn't really affect other than performance. And intel was never better in that regard, as they had their fair share of issues (for starters, all of their sandforce line suffers from write degradation, just like any other sandforce drive).

By: Benjamin Hojnik

Benjamin Hojnik — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 08:19:00 +0000

In reply to Sean Webster. Well, considering prices in EU usually translate to $ == €, they gonna be 100$ for 'muricans once flash gets cheap like that :)

By: Benjamin Hojnik

Benjamin Hojnik — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 08:18:00 +0000

In reply to Dean Dayton Rogers. If you need a lot of _storage_, then you're after the wrong type of drive :)