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Counterpoint: Intel SSDs have been going strong since at least 2008.
by Rafuino 7y ago
Counterpoint: Intel SSDs have been going strong since at least 2008.
- mark-r 7y agoDefine "strong". I've never actually seen one.
- freeone3000 7y agoThey exist on Newegg. You can buy one. I have one.
- astrodust 7y agoI have a few. For certain applications they're excellent.
- zszugyi 7y agoWould your definition include "I've seen one"?
- mark-r 7y agoIt's rather like proving a negative. If they were really popular, chances are I'd have seen one by now - but I haven't. That doesn't mean they aren't popular, but it reduces the odds.
- Rafuino 7y agoThe 660p SSDs are some of the best selling consumer SSDs on sites like Newegg. Here's their best selling list if you're curious: https://www.newegg.com/Internal-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-636?name=Internal%2DSSDs&Order=BESTSELLING https://www.newegg.com/Internal-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-636?name... Otherwise, Intel SSDs have quite a bit of share in the datacenter space. If you haven't seen them before, that's likely because you're not an enterprise customer.
- mark-r 7y agoYou're right, I'm not an enterprise customer. Thanks for the Newegg link.
- avs733 7y agoThey would rather sell them in bulk...to bulk buyers...for scale reasons. They average around 10% of the market. They were nukber three days n volume and two in revenue for a long time. Still float around that point https://www.statista.com/statistics/412158/global-market-share-solid-state-drive-suppliers/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/412158/global-market-sha... https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/06/03/ssd-revenue-and-shipments-down-in-the-first-quarter/ https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/06/03/ssd-revenue-and-shipme...
- georgeburdell 7y agoMy builds going back to 2011 have had Intel SSDs in them
- rasz 7y agoFun fact: Intel uses them in place of bribe^^ uh, I mean as a reward to volume re-sellers for meeting sale goals, and during specific SKU promotions (buy cpu +MB, receive free SSD).
- PaulHoule 7y agoI like Intel SSDs, often these cost a little more but have better 99% latency than competitors. If an Intel Inside sticker meant an Intel SSD rather than Atom or some other hunk of junk, that sticker would mean something.
- BubRoss 7y agoIf you go to microcenters website you can search for SSDs based on their controller chip. Specific controllers and large heatsinks seem to be what's next for the PCIe 4 SSDs that claim 5GB/s or more.
- lozaning 7y agoAnd if you know what you're doing and have a rep at Synnex or Ingram thats willing to play along, you can really get things cranking. I sold over 2 million dollars worth of Intel SSDs to Amazon customers in the span of a week once. Intel was running an extremely nebulously defined promo for 'new' customers where resellers could get 90% off disty price on enterprise SSD. I uploaded all the eligibles SKUs to amazon at like 15% off list, wrote up some really gross python scripts to manage orders between amazon and synnex and to submit the deal registrations, and then hit my 6 months sales quota in an afternoon. The double bonus was 6 months later when I then registered for all the backend spiffs. The backend rebate on some of this stuff sometimes exceeded 10% of list price. To date it's the only deal I've ever put together that had more than 100% gross margin.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoWell played, but I'm genuinely not understanding why Intel would do this. If there's consumer demand for their SSDs at 15% off list (as you experimentally demonstrated), why would Intel run a distributor promo that offers 90% (what!) off the even lower disty price? Did somebody just have a KPI of units shifted to hit?
- joezydeco 7y agoCountercounterpoint: I was recently hiring a firmware engineer and my recruiter handed me not one, not two, but three resumes from the same SSD engineering group. So maybe not as strong anymore?