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Is this likely to help lower the cost of SSDs in the ~1TB range? After watching the price of 1TB drop from the stratosphere to $100, I'd love to see them make i
by sq_ 6y ago
Is this likely to help lower the cost of SSDs in the ~1TB range? After watching the price of 1TB drop from the stratosphere to $100, I'd love to see them make it down towards $75...
- barbacoa 6y agoThey have 1tb going for $85 on amazon. You probably check their prices 3 months ago because SSDs have been dropping about 15% per quarter.
- rootsudo 6y agoWow 1TB SSD's are super cheap now.. That's so cool.
- jabbany 6y agoThat drop came with a drop in performance too... Most of the 80－100 $/TB disks use QLC which is painfully slow (slower than a spinning hard drive) when you outrun the SLC cache... Had to experience this during a drive migration with dd.
- tw04 6y ago*on sustained writes. They will absolutely trash a spinning drive on reads.
- dannyw 6y agoIf you wanna resize a partition, or anything else that essentially rewrites the whole disk... have fun.
- tlamponi 6y agoI mean yes, but isn't that something quite rare? At least I never feel the need to do it, the closet I came to something like that was when I switched from a 240 GiB SSD to a 1 TiB one and just mirrored the old disk to the new one with dd, increased the partition and run a resize2fs. While that required ~30 Minutes it was a once in a decade thing for me.
- baybal2 6y agoA QLC with 40+ TB will still be quite snappy without cache. While cacheless TLC gets parity with MLC at around 8 TB. So, yes QLC flash needs really big drives to get enough of aggregate write performance. Below that, there is not much rationale to use it evlconomically vs TLC.
- jabbany 6y agoQLC is also much lower endurance, so at those sizes there's also the question of how much over-provisioning needs to happen to enable acceptable endurance, while still being cheap enough to out compete the alternatives.
- ksec 6y agoThe cheapest 2TB drive on SATA III could be bought for $149. But that is not a normal pricing, it will probably take another two year for that to be a norm. On the other hand 2.5" HDD has been stuck at the same capacity for 2-3 years.
- fpoling 6y agoAnd the capacity increase 3 years ago was from 4TB to 5TB and I bought my first 4TB disc IIRC 6 years ago.