Chinese SSD maker eyes U.S. market for 8TB drive intro

[xunzi]

With China entering the SSD market, guarantee within a few years price will drop like atomic bomb. Same goes with Smartphone where the average smartphone back then was $600 overprice until we entered the market, it came down to $300.

 

[qwerrty]

With China entering the SSD market, guarantee within a few years price will drop like atomic bomb. Same goes with Smartphone where the average smartphone back then was $600 overprice until we entered the market, it came down to $300.

not with that price. lol. we need a xiaomi-like company in memory and storage market to make that happen

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Am an average dude. Yes, I do have employee discount, but that is only 10% off. Nothing spectacular.

Spinners are dead, essentially, even the makers knows it. Odds are very good to excellent that the 'expensive' SSD you bought today will outlast the HDD you buy tomorrow, or next month, or even next yr. Long term wise, at even today's prices, an SSD is the superior choice in many ways, from speed to reliability, that it is economically better than a spinner. I spent good money on an Intel SLC 32gb and it is still running just fine for nearly 8 yrs. In that time, I had to replace four spinners.

8TB of storage is for Facebook and the likes, not average dudes like us.

Amazon.com: Crucial m4 128GB 2.5-Inch (9.5mm) SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive CT128M4SSD2: Electronics

This is not exorbitant.

What the.. The M4s are still on the market? I remember them being popular around 3 yrs ago. and the price on Amazon is not much different from when I bought them.... something is WRONG.

But they are indeed reliable products. Mine's lifespan only dropped to 93% after 3 yrs heavy use，but they are no where near the best performers these days，especially for that price.

 

[gambit]

What the.. The M4s are still on the market? I remember them being popular around 3 yrs ago. and the price on Amazon is not much different from when I bought them.... something is WRONG.

But they are indeed reliable products. Mine's lifespan only dropped to 93% after 3 yrs heavy use，but they are no where near the best performers these days，especially for that price.

Unless you are running a business class server, there is no need for average people like us to have anything more than the MLC type SSDs. Crucial have the BX series and they are plenty good for the price range. You can still find SLC SSDs but you will pay a premium for them.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

With China entering the SSD market, guarantee within a few years price will drop like atomic bomb. Same goes with Smartphone where the average smartphone back then was $600 overprice until we entered the market, it came down to $300.

Right, and China designs and manufactures high density NAND flash,
which is the bulk of the Bill of Material in an SSD?

I am afraid not!

They, like anyone else have to buy NAND flash from the few vendors with this technology.
Won't give them a price advantage...

Since they are using eMMC, where EACH memory device contains a microcontroller
their solution will be more EXPENSIVE.

 

[qwerrty]

What the.. The M4s are still on the market? I remember them being popular around 3 yrs ago. and the price on Amazon is not much different from when I bought them.... something is WRONG.

But they are indeed reliable products. Mine's lifespan only dropped to 93% after 3 yrs heavy use，but they are no where near the best performers these days，especially for that price.

yeah, i'd rather buy samsung 850 EVO with better performance, cheaper and you get 250GB

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/dp/B00OAJ412U/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1444827835&sr=1-1&keywords=Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

 

[tranquilium]

Wow, good luck this isn't breaking into the private consumer US market rofl.

Well in all honesty it doesn't seem intended for that in anycase.

SSD is the future, but anything above 2tb is still too pricey imo, hopefully will come down in the next 5 years.

If we are talking about SSD, 500GB is about the limit the vast majority of the private consumers will buy right now.

 

[qwerrty]

Right, and China designs and manufactures high density NAND flash, which is the bulk of the Bill of Material in an SSD?

well, they do

Sage Micro contracts with TSMC competitor SMIC to make its silicon, and said it can offer an SSD at $0.50 per gigabyte -- half the industry average. Additionally, Tsu said the use of JEDEC-compliant memory cards instead of discrete flash ICs enables SSD manufacturers to mix-and-match inventory to further reduce testing cost.
Chinese Startup Halves Cost of SSD | EE Times

 

[anon45]

If we are talking about SSD, 500GB is about the limit the vast majority of the private consumers will buy right now.

True, I got a 250 gb one myself.. wish i'd sprung for the 500gb one instead

 

[tranquilium]

True, I got a 250 gb one myself.. wish i'd sprung for the 500gb one instead

Yeah, the 1TB SSD cost about 500 bucks at Frys. That's like half of the price of a decent performing self-assembled computer. In other words way too expensive consider what we do with it.

My lab's computer can sure use a SSD though. Running PSCAD simulation on long distance cables can really take a long time. Just have to move the data to a regular hard drive every now and then.

 

[A.P. Richelieu]

well, they do

And these guys buy from Samsung, but plans to change to Intel, according to OP.
NO cost benefit whatsoever...

 

[somebozo]

While many manufacturers focus on speed with the SSD...there is very little applications which can use those speeds in consumer or even industrial markets...There is a bigger market for large capacity SSD at a better performance than magnetic drives....

Many people upgrade their memory and CPU without realizing it is the hard drive which is bottle neck in I/O processing...