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Completely tangential, but Yangtze Memory/YMTC 232-layer NAND flash that was supposed to be used in iPhone 14 is on fire sale due to US import restrictions, to
by numpad0 4y ago
Completely tangential, but Yangtze Memory/YMTC 232-layer NAND flash that was supposed to be used in iPhone 14 is on fire sale due to US import restrictions, to the point that some speculates that YMTC will be gone soon.
The point is, DRAM-less 2TB M.2 NVMe disks are at $80 right now in select non-US markets. This is mere ~5x HDD, and slow as 4Gbps on writes at worst conditions.
- zamadatix 4y agoDRAM-less 2 TB m.2 NVMe drives are <$80 in the US market as well https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CDM2HSS https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CDM2HSS. There are a couple such drives in this price range, even from companies like Intel with their 670p.
- rektide 4y agoMinor detail, Intel sold their SSD business to SK Hynix for $7b. SK Hynix created a new company Solidigm out of the acquisition. So it is now a Solidigm 670p. https://www.solidigm.com/products/client/d6/670p.html https://www.solidigm.com/products/client/d6/670p.html Personally it really felt a bit rotten to me that Intel had created drives like the 670p that would simply stop working after a designated amount of writes. On the one hand, predictable life-span is kind of of a good thing, but sending drives to the landfill before they're actually done seems monstrous. Anyways though, yeah, DRAM-less drives are available for incredible prices.