SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.

Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by zanny on Saturday May 03, 2014 @03:40PM (#7692113)

Well, in 2010 a 256GB ssd was upwards of $500+. Today, a TB SSD costs that. So yeah, capacity for price increases 4x over in 4 years. So 2022 is a good estimate for commodity 4TB SSDs.

I wonder if we will ever get nand storage below mechanical in price per GB. Even in 2022 I can image 8 - 10 TB mechanical disks being only $100 still, while the 2TB SSDs cost about that. Because by then we are probably hitting some physical limits.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by mikhailt on Saturday May 03, 2014 @11:03PM (#7693161)

I foresee two types for popular SSDs.

1. MLC at 512GB-1TB is all that needed for the boot/app drives for the next 5 years. They're already at decent prices, 3D stacked chips and another smaller process should be possible within 5 years to bring 1TB to about 200$. 2. TLC at 4TB+ for media/archival storage. I'd foresee 2TB TLC drive at 100$ within 5 years.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by sitkack on Saturday May 03, 2014 @05:38PM (#7692431)

3.5 years for commodity 4TB SSD or less. I have a 1TB SSD, would gladly switch to a 2TB model for twice the price. As the Sandisk announcement shows, it is market not physical forces that will get us to 4TB.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by frozenport on Sunday May 04, 2014 @05:26AM (#7693769)

RAID

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by kondro on Sunday May 04, 2014 @05:54AM (#7693797)

In a notebook?

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by frozenport on Sunday May 04, 2014 @04:10PM (#7695592)

Its quite common, I have one for example.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by sitkack on Sunday May 04, 2014 @04:44PM (#7695723)

Only the Lenovo W series supports RAID afaik.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by frozenport on Sunday May 04, 2014 @05:27PM (#7695894)

My laptop is an Asus g7. A college of mine did some tricks to get a RAID0 in his macbook pro. The future is now.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by sitkack on Sunday May 04, 2014 @07:52PM (#7696330)

I know, I was waiting. I have the optibay in MBP15 with a rotational disk for backups since SSDs have been so unreliable. The 1TB samsung has been amazing. You are correct, I should swap out the 1TB rotational for another 1TB and run RAID.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by kondro on Thursday May 08, 2014 @02:51AM (#7714213)

At this point you'll probably get the most increased performance by upgrading your MBP rather than RAID its storage.

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Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year. by sitkack on Saturday May 10, 2014 @04:16AM (#7724830)

I do want more Performance, but I really want more and faster storage so I think RAIDing another 1TB SSD is in order. And I couldn't get this with a new MBP. I think they only will accept a single PCIe drive.

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