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Intel's New 3D NAND Technology Allows for Greater Than 10TB Solid-State Drives
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So...if you want to sell, or if one of these new-fangled machines break, how do you make sure none of your stuff is left on them? Right now I just replace the hard drive and install a fresh copy of the OS. Done.
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Am I the only one perplexed by the claim of "three times more storage capacity" and an initial offering of a 256GB drive? When I saw the headline I expected the smallest capacity to be at least 1 TB.
Cost Increase or Decrease
It'll be interesting to see how the price of 3D NAND flash compares to its 2D predecessor. I can't help but think it'll be more expensive, but I guess it could help to lower the price per gigabyte. Upgrading the 15" Retina MacBook Pro from 256 gigabytes to 768 for $200-$250 would be nice.
What you you think?
It'll be interesting to see how the price of 3D NAND flash compares to its 2D predecessor. I can't help but think it'll be more expensive, but I guess it could help to lower the price per gigabyte. Upgrading the 15" Retina MacBook Pro from 256 gigabytes to 768 for $200-$250 would be nice.
What you you think?
I believe they did. The 850 Pro. If my memory serves me right Anandtech made a review on it and seemed to be pretty impressed by it.
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Pretty much, yeah. The Samsung 850 was, at least at launch, considerably more expensive than comparable drives using planar (conventional) NAND flash, but as planar tech has pretty much maxed out, the only way forward - with flash tech anyway - is by stacking.
Simply shrinking the cell size further and further isn't viable anymore; each time you shrink, durability goes down (a lot), and read/write times go up. Also, block and page sizes tend to grow a lot as well when shrinking, which increases overwriting (having to write more data than the actual write access you wanted to perform), which lowers durability of the drive further still.
Stacking effectively circumvents all that, but is a more complicated manufacturing technology, so will be more expensive in the near term...
I'm confused as well. For instance, they claim potential of up to 10 tb which is 10 times higher then 1 tb that exists was today. Also, are they implying we'll get less expensive drives while enjoying more storage in said drive? The article is unclear.
The 850 does advertise the 3D NAND tech, it is competitively priced now too. The increased durability of the 3D cells architecture also meant they bumped up their warranty from 3 to 5 years.
giga dollars, since they don't like nano dollars.
Goodbye Seagate, LaCie, Western Digital et al
Uh... what? 3D NAND became available in consumer drives LAST YEAR.
A lot of people have already upgraded their Macs with SSDs utilizing 3D NAND.
Samsung has been making 32-layer 3D NAND for a while.
Why do I fear that if Apple uses this, Apple won't increase the capacity, but make the iDevices smaller/thinner? Just hoping that I'm paranoid. Now where's my tin foil hat?
