Intel and Micron 3D NAND tech to bring about 10TB 2.5-inch SSDs

[HEXUS]

Floating gate cell tech in 3D enables the highest-density flash devices ever developed.

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[Lord Midas]

Holy shizzle!! These boffins are damn clever. Expecting 5-10 years before this becomes consumer friendly.

[AlexKitch]

The question is, will it bring down the cost of consumer capacity drives?

Personally, I'm not interested in a 10TB SSD. I'm interested in a 500GB - 1TB drive that doesn't break the bank.

[MercutioUK]

The question is, will it bring down the cost of consumer capacity drives?

Personally, I'm not interested in a 10TB SSD. I'm interested in a 500GB - 1TB drive that doesn't break the bank.

I'm interested in both

[azrael-]

How is this different from Samsung's V-NAND technology again? Doesn't seem quite as revolutionary as they try to make it out to be.

[Jowsey]

How is this different from Samsung's V-NAND technology again? Doesn't seem quite as revolutionary as they try to make it out to be.

Because it's no longer a Samsung exclusive probably. Just informing them that they are about to benfit hugely with regards to costs and hopefully we will now see these truly passed on to the purchaser of the device. Got to love razor thin margins1!

[sykobee]

There's three companies/partnerships with 3D NAND now. Samsung, Toshiba and Intel (and their partners).

Samsung and Toshiba use newer Charge Trap technology, Intel are using the same old "reliable, known" floating gate technology.

The best news in all cases is that this keeps capacity, but retains the best lifespans from previous generations (due to holding more electrons in the trap/gate).

Intel's die size is larger than the other companies'. Samsung and Toshiba will have 48-layer devices out this year which will increase capacity.

However, I just want a 1TB SSD that costs under £200... however it is attained.

[MercutioUK]

I've seen somewhere that gave a good case for solid state price per MB dropping below standard spinning storage in the next year or so. Now, assuming like most predictions it's got the right idea, but vastly underestimates the timescales due to laziness etc, this still seems like it won't take THAT long.

When it's a matter of sticking a bunch of chips on a circuit board compared to precision engineering the drive motors, actuators, etc in spinning media (the oft quoted "less than a width of human hair" separating the read arm and a some form of disk with a ferrous coating spinning at 5600/7200/10k/15k rpm) it seems entirely feasible that it will get a LOT cheaper as soon as they can squeeze big enough yields from high density nand.

I'd give it a couple of years before the lines cross.

Spinning media will become something of an archiving format (as drives *generally* have a lot longer lifetime than current generations of nand) and we'll all be using a much improved mass storage technology that isn't based on the evolution of the record player