All fun, but as i said in another article. Id rather see them make affordable 1 - 2 TB SSDs. And with affordable i mean 200 Euro range. SSDs are fast enough already, the price is the bottleneck.

Here's an article on the subject: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20140522/353388/ Edit: The link on the front page states that the story does not exist so I posted the link to the source.

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The title is a bit misleading -> it won't quadruple performance unless the SSD is very low on storage space (<20%).

All fun, but as i said in another article. Id rather see them make affordable 1 - 2 TB SSDs. And with affordable i mean 200 Euro range. SSDs are fast enough already, the price is the bottleneck.

Actually, I think it may affect the price substantially. The proposed solution appears to be obvious and straightforward. Yet, it's not been used so far. It should significantly decrease the flash rewrites, making TLC (and perhaps in the future quad-LC) more reliable. By improving effectiveness of flash writes, the manufacturers might use cheaper/denser modules, use less storage for wear leveling (and bad sectors backup), and spend less on RMAs, effectively reducing the end-user SSD price.

It's appears to be a firmware principle, not strictly a hardware one (therefore, only licencing costs, if any, involved). I don't know whether it's a good thing in terms of manufacturers then using cheaper modules, I don't think it would be good to use lower quality/life expectancy modules than the current 'economy' versions. The standard user shouldn't have issues with RMA, unless they are bastardising the disk somehow, or if the disk is has stress related weak points. It's a good thing, don't get me wrong! But I would like to see increased longevity/reliability as a result, not manufacturers using the reliability headroom as an excuse to use low quality components.

I get what you mean. I'd also like to see reliability increase. Regarding standard user and RMA - luckily I haven't experienced a single HDD failure in a few years, but got 3 SSDs dead recently. It doesn't look cool.

I've had two HD failures in the last few years, and zero SSD failures - that looks very cool. As always one rain drop doesnt make a thunderstorm. Nothing is perfect overnight, even our clunky hard discs of today were considered weird when first appearing on the scene. New technology takes time to mature and come into use. The fact that this is even on the drawing board is a big step forward. Lets see what the future holds, if they get this running across the whole available space ..... and work reliably ...... it will be yet another turning point in data storage. It sure as hell will not happen by yesterday, these things never do. Interesting development ....... lets reserve Armageddon comments for any final production version (if it appears), meanwhile, life goes on ......

Just because you low level formatted the drive, doesnt guarantee its ok. Seagates fail the most, but even with other brands it can happen. Use crystaldiskinfo to check the drives after u did the format and see if its healthy (blue). And i dont care about big hdds. If it fails, even more data is gone. Ssd's dont fail from reading, so as long as i dont fill em up, they will last me much longer than a hdd.

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In my 15 years of using HDD equipped machines, I have never seen one fail or develop bad sectors. I have used a few for 8 or 9 years without problems. This includes 3 that came in Emachines computers.

Think 20 TB on a single drive, how exciting that would be! (the 'excitement' being the feeling you will have when it decides to fail on you).

Looking forward to that, as then buying a NAS will truely be worth its price for my personal needs. Though at that point I would SERIOUSLY consider a RAID1 setup...

In my 15 years of using HDD equipped machines, I have never seen one fail or develop bad sectors. I have used a few for 8 or 9 years without problems. This includes 3 that came in Emachines computers.

My friend I imagine this is quite uncommon, for someone to be around tech that long and not see a drive develop bad sectors. In my IT career which is at about 13 years now Ive seen many cases of soft and hard sector failures, sata interface and io failures, shock damage.. You name it. The drives that I've seen fail the most would be Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Maxtor. I've seen more maxstor that any other fail over time. Have been able to get important bits of data off of failig drives numerous times after placing them in the freezer too.. It can work once in a while 🙂