Incidentally, I've been recently using the command-line storage benchmarking utility shown in the "Live demo showing SR1020 at 3040MB/s sequential read" photo, and it's a really great tool.
"Pricing is TBA, but should be below ADATA's MLC drives, although I was told not to expect dramatic price cuts."
Wait...what?! So...we take the (un)known risks and reduced performance of MLC and the dramatic savings are passed onto....the vendors? Better margins for them? Higher risk for us? It's like a win-win, except for that 2nd part.
The NAND cost reduction from TLC us said to be about 30%, as not all parts of the chips can be scaled, overprovsioning has to be increased etc. If this leads to a 20% price reduction I'd be fine with that, at least until the development cost has been refunded.
Sorry but 20% doesn't really sound like a very good deal to me ... but I doubt it will even be 20%. For less than that though TLC really doesn't sound like it's worth it. After all why bother ? For $10 ?
For the uneducated a $10 discount can certainly be enough as most people buy solely based on price. I told everyone at Computex that in order for their TLC drives to be successful, the pricing needs to be considerably lower because TLC is inherently worse than MLC and no controller can get around that (lower performance and endurance, higher power consumption), but right now nobody is promising price cuts higher than 5-10%.
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Solid State Brain - Monday, June 8, 2015 - link
Incidentally, I've been recently using the command-line storage benchmarking utility shown in the "Live demo showing SR1020 at 3040MB/s sequential read" photo, and it's a really great tool.Mikemk - Monday, June 8, 2015 - link
What's the blue apple next to the USB 3.1 drive?Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - link
Seems to be a blue apple with a light inside to act as a decoration.ClockHound - Monday, June 8, 2015 - link
"Pricing is TBA, but should be below ADATA's MLC drives, although I was told not to expect dramatic price cuts."Wait...what?! So...we take the (un)known risks and reduced performance of MLC and the dramatic savings are passed onto....the vendors? Better margins for them? Higher risk for us? It's like a win-win, except for that 2nd part.
MrSpadge - Monday, June 8, 2015 - link
The NAND cost reduction from TLC us said to be about 30%, as not all parts of the chips can be scaled, overprovsioning has to be increased etc. If this leads to a 20% price reduction I'd be fine with that, at least until the development cost has been refunded.mforce - Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - link
Sorry but 20% doesn't really sound like a very good deal to me ... but I doubt it will even be 20%. For less than that though TLC really doesn't sound like it's worth it. After all why bother ? For $10 ?Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - link
For the uneducated a $10 discount can certainly be enough as most people buy solely based on price. I told everyone at Computex that in order for their TLC drives to be successful, the pricing needs to be considerably lower because TLC is inherently worse than MLC and no controller can get around that (lower performance and endurance, higher power consumption), but right now nobody is promising price cuts higher than 5-10%.