Intel - "Talk to the Product Manager" Live Chat & Giveaway

[Cwazywazy]

Ooh that's 2PM where I am. Good thing I'm home sick. (I guess)

[Barrington]

1 Horse Sized Duck or 100 Duck sized Horses

 

what would you rather have to face in a Fight to the Death

 

 

Real question

Any reason SSD's Have to be the small size that they are and couldn't be Bigger for more storage?

[BartFYI]

How long does it take for you to come up with the finished product and what are the stages it goes through?   

[Koros1691]

What direction are SSD's headed in? Are they going to continue to be SSD's as we currently know then for the foreseeable future or will somthing else come along and totally change how we see SSD's?

[bigbabrad501]

do you have to test your SSD's no only for their actual use but by dropping them and getting them wet quality i guess

[fahrenhate]

Very exciting ssduff.

[ScionRay]

Q: As many probably are asking or wondering is how much longer is it going to take for more storage on SSD's  I mean we have a 64gb micro sd cards? and I think their is a 128gb one coming out? so why can't we get more storage on a ssd?  Also when are gamers going to get a 8 core 16 thread cpu from intel? 

[sm_94]

How about lowering prices of ssd-s, even 60GB ssd here costs around 50€ and 1TB hdd is around same price. Also capacity should be abit higher and speeds are already high enough.

[scottyboy]

Loving that the live stream is at 6pm here in the UK. It's a nice change from the usual 12:30am WAN show time which is waayyy past my bedtime. Still totally watch it every week.

 

Questions for Jeff - 

 

• What sets intels own memory controller apart compared to other rivals such as sandforce?
• How long do you think it will be before SSD's will be as cheap per GB compared to HDD's?
• Slightly off topic from SSD's. intel have made massive performance jumps with their SSD's in the past few years, however big jumps in CPU performance since sandy bridge seem to have stalled in favour of better power consumption and performance per watt. Which is brilliant. Just wondering if you think intel will have another big leap in performance like they have with recent SSD's and previous CPU architectures. There doesn't seem to be much incentive for customers who are building a new PC to go out at buy the latest haswell chip over ivy bridge/sandy bridge in terms of raw performance. 

Cheers for any questions answered!

[stigbeater]

my question would be, what would you say that would give me a reason to upgrade to one of your new ssd's from one of your last one.

[CountPC]

If we would take the numbers from Intel website so "Endurance (Writes / Day) 50GB for 240GB version, and 70GB for 480GB version" How many years approximately would the drive last?

[ScionRay]

Q: For a average consumer is there going to be a nice sweet spot of new processor coming out? to go with these nice new ssd's. When do you feel 256gb ssd's will drop under 100.00 dollars?  right now they are around or under 150.00 and I know that's good now but would like more storage for that price point.

[SJHRYS]

Well some last minutes Q's:

1. Will Intel Provide a 1TB Option for this kind of SSD?

2. Will the SSD Stand out long enough (lifespan) ??

[Str_Mape]

What would be the durability of a 730 SSD compared to both a 530 and 335?.

[LOLPhilips]

Q:

How come even though during continued operation, the standard deviation off the new intel SSD's is so small but IOps fall to below 20,000... This is whilst looking at a SSD used continues for 21-30 minutes. (Yes I know these are not ordinary cosumer work loads)

Compared to competitor SSD's sometimes have a standard deviation upto a hunderd times that of an intel SSD but still keeping a overall larger IOps

 

Is this a permanent trade off for these SSD;s or something that will be or is worked on?

 

 

 

I hope this is a question is clear (not english)

[mack_5991]

Why do you make your own controllers and why are your ssd's more expensive than competitors #730SSDFTW

[MightyUnit]

Question for Jeff:

 

I would like to know if SSD RAID 0 helps randoms read and write speeds. AFAIK sequential speeds are not as important to random reading and writing. Depending on ones RAID 0 stripe size isn't lots of data still only being written to one SSD thus slowing down the experience??? thank you

[Galactic Penguin]

 are you Andy Bernard from the office?

[Gherald010]

For the Win

[Argent]

What do you see happening in the future of storage devices in the next 5-10 years?  Where do you think we'll be?

 

Looks like you've already answered most my questions on validation and testing.

[rockking1379]

will there be a PCIe version of the 730 series?

[TTheuns]

Oh god, I hope to win one! I really need it for my PC, I'm running low on my budget

[ScionRay]

OMG want to put those in raid. 

[SJHRYS]

So How much the raw cost to build 730 SSD? #730SSDFTW

[mack_5991]

Thank You Jeff