SSD NAND prices dropping - price could further half this year
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fantaskarsef
Could.
sverek
BIG if true.
Exodite
Fingers crossed! It'd line up perfectly for a Ryzen 3K build with a 2TB M.2 in summer or early fall. 🙂
fantaskarsef
Yeah, I too wouldn't mind getting my fingers onto a larger M2 drive tbh.
FrostNixon
500gb samsung 970 m2 seems to be the best bang for buck. Will follow the prices with great interest.
IcE
Hoping for sub $100 Terabyte SSD's. It's wild to me seeing this though, since I was one of the very first SSD adopters all those years ago. I remember paying almost $300 USD for a 60GB Vertex drive. Those were the days.
Undying
Planing on getting another SSD soon, hopefuly this is true.
The Goose
Wouldnt mind getting a second Samsung 970pro 1tb but they're £50 more than they were a month ago, paid £250 for mine
Loophole35
Would love to get a 2TB SSD for my photos. Would love the improved speed with that seeing as photos are only getting bigger and bigger.
Venix
Hmm an m2 512 for os ond an 1-2tb for steam split with an hdd cashed with my old 120 drive might be a dream!
tunejunky
idk about 50% drop, plausible though.
what i do know is OEM systems are going to be a rip-off until summer as the memory was sourced at higher prices.
but there will be a price war as WD fully integrates Toshiba's production of NAND and Micron wants US and Euro sales to make up for Chinese issues.
schmidtbag
Might be a good opportunity for me to upgrade my home server. Right now it has a RAID1 setup with a couple of 7200RPM laptop drives. They're plenty fast enough (considering my network is limited to 1Gbps anyway) and aren't showing signs of failure, but I like the idea of something being more reliable and more energy efficient. Switching to a single drive, I could also finally switch to ARM and ditch x86 (RAID isn't really achievable on ARM, at least not cost-effectively).
tunejunky
Micron has bought 100% of Intel's interests in Optane.
look for AMD compatibility to be advertised (it always worked but was sold as Intel)
as well as new sizes and formats (i.e. M.2, pcie, 2.5").
also a price reduction. Micron has troubles in China and is doubling down on the first world.
FranciscoCL
Speaking of SSD... Any chance to see new SSD that takes advantage of PCI-E 4 this year? (since Ryzen 3XXX is coming with PCI-E 4)
tsunami231
that would be great would be 1TB under 100$, I would love to put SSD into my ps4
anticupidon
Just in time to accomodate a fresh Linux install on a 1 TB SSD, Steam and Lutris will happily install games on it!
Silva
Really happy with my Crucial MX100 256Gb.
Will buy an NVMe Crucial P1 500Gb with my new Ryzen 3k.
Fox2232
Will happily buy 2nd M.2 as long as price is right and it is PCIe x4 even if it is not faster than 2.5GB/s
Silva
Duplicate, sorry.
Exodite
I've thought about that too and I'm curious to see how it'll be utilized for storage.
I'm not convinced it makes sense to introduce products that utilize PCIe 4.0 x4, for double the theoretical throughput, as client workloads never really get anywhere close to the 3.5 GB/s of PCIe 3.0 x4 as it is. Maybe a better idea would be to split the 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes into 8 PCIe 3.0 to allow for more drives overall. But as that would require some kind of PLX setup it would add cost and might introduce latencies that work against what you'd be trying to do in the first place. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable could offer better insights.
Right now I'd say any real improvements in client performance would have to come through QD1 optimization, IOPS and transfer speeds both, rather than increased bandwidth on the high end.
