What new SSDs are you looking forward to? Model & technology wise

[Kristijonas]

As the thread name implies, what is the next good thing to come in your opinion?

 

[BSim500]

As the thread name implies, what is the next good thing to come in your opinion?

Same ones at lower prices. I honestly think even the cheap 850 EVO's / MX300's SATA's are good enough for 95% of typical general usage / gaming rigs, but it's clear the economics of "replacing" +1TB HDD's have hit a brick wall with 2017 prices in many regions for 1TB 3D-TLC drives higher this year than some 1TB MLC's (eg, MX200) were 2 years ago.

They need to start increasing manufacturing scale (if the problem is a demand crunch caused by OEM laptops, etc, going mainstream) then working on upping those 3D layers or use that "string stacking" (ie, 3x 48-layer = 144 layers, 4x 48-layers = 192 layers, etc) if that's still a possible real "thing" beyond marketing vaporware.

 

[Kristijonas]

Thanks for the reply. Sounds logical enough. I am not looking for any better performance myself either. I'm more of a fan of reliability so hopefuly there will be more realiable SSDs coming out some time. Though I suppose something like mx300 is already reliable enough. I wonder if mx400 will be good, though it probably won't be coming out soon as the cheaper bx ( I think ) series are coming out first.

 

[Glaring_Mistake]

Well, I'm interested in several drives and controllers.
For example the SM2262EN that along with 64-layer IMFT 3D TLC NAND is supposed to really fast.
Now we'll have to see some tests of a drive with that configuration to find out just how well it performs but I think they've managed to improve both the controller and the NAND.
Tomshardware sound impressed by the performance in any case: "The SMI SM2262EN will be in the fastest consumer SSD available when it's released next year. We spent time with a reference design paired with IMFT's new 256Gbit TLC flash, and it's the fastest product we've ever tested."

 

[Ratman6161]

Same ones at lower prices. I honestly think even the cheap 850 EVO's / MX300's SATA's are good enough for 95% of typical general usage / gaming rigs, but it's clear the economics of "replacing" +1TB HDD's have hit a brick wall with 2017 prices in many regions for 1TB 3D-TLC drives higher this year than some 1TB MLC's (eg, MX200) were 2 years ago.

They need to start increasing manufacturing scale (if the problem is a demand crunch caused by OEM laptops, etc, going mainstream) then working on upping those 3D layers or use that "string stacking" (ie, 3x 48-layer = 144 layers, 4x 48-layers = 192 layers, etc) if that's still a possible real "thing" beyond marketing vaporware.

Completely agree. I upgraded from a 250GB 850 EVO to a 512 GB 960 EVO NVMe. I can notice the difference in certain things, but overall I found the "upgrade" disappointing other than the increase in size.

I do think there is a place for large but relatively low performance SSD's. Today a lot of people are in the position where an SSD big enough to be their only storage (i.e. 1 TB and up) is just too expensive. So they end up with a decent SSD as a boot drive and and old fashioned spinning disk for big storage. The sort of SSD I'm thinking of could be pretty poor performance compared to a good boot drive, but still be light years faster than a spinning disk. You would still have a fast drive and a slow drive...but the slow drive would be way faster than it is now.

Another place I can see using a relatively cheap and low performance SSD is in a lot of the big OEM systems. I see a lot of systems with a decent CPU and RAM where I'm wondering why its so cheap...until I notice that its got a 1 TB HDD. I find myself thinking that this could be an OK system if I spend another $100 or so on an 850 EVO to put in it. but that $100 is for a 250 GB and that's a little tight for me. For a lot of people this would be a good place for my theoretical 1 or 2 TB slowish SSD. It might not cost much more for an OEM buying 10's of thousands of them while still giving the user some pretty OK performance compared to the HDD

So that's my take. Performance is currently good enough so now I want large but cheap SSD storage for places where zi'm willing to sacrifice some performance in the name of volume.

Edit: Here is an example. Recently I had a use case where I needed 2 TB. I found a 2 TB 7200 RPM Toshiba HDD for $63 on Amazon. The Cheapest 2 TB SSD on Amazon is a Crucial MX300 for $549.00. The cheapest 1 TB SSD is $260. So if you need a lot of space, getting it on an SSD is horrendous.

 

[Omar F1]

I'd assume that many are still waiting for the 1GB SSD drives to become mainstream.
Personally, I'm disappointed that it seems development performance/stability-wise of SATA SSD drives are on halt.

 

[13Gigatons]

Just want the price to go down and the capacity to go up.

 

[Kristijonas]

Yeah I remember ~5 years ago I was a bum and thought to myself "well it's a new technology, I'll just wait for it to be mastered in 5 years and then buy an SSD" and it's still same now as then. I also have an intel 330 for ~2 years now and it's still a good performer.

 

[corkyg]

We always want more for less!

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

900p.

 

[R0H1T]

I'd assume that many are still waiting for the 1GB SSD drives to become mainstream.
Personally, I'm disappointed that it seems development performance/stability-wise of SATA SSD drives are on halt.

You mean 1TB?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I want some 1TB M.2 PCI-E 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.3+ SSDs, for $100. Doesn't mean that I'm going to get them, though. At least, not for a while. (Hopefully not QLC either.)

 

[Oyeve]

I find the cost of current SSD drives to be good. I just ordered a few more 1TB Reactor drives for 269 a pop. Pretty good price IMO. But I come from the days when a 200 megabyte ESDI drive for my Compaq 386/33 PC cost $2000. And a meg of ram was around $600.

 

[XMan]

I'd like a 3.5" form factor SSD. Kind of like an old-school Bigfoot, just for mass storage.

 

[whm1974]

I have two Crucial M500 1TB SSDs, and I'm hoping by the time I build my next system 2TB SSDs will be cheaper and widespread.