Why don't they make 3.5 inch SSD's?

[NoctHorn]

Can someone explain to me why 3.5 inch SSD's are not manufactured on a large scale?  Sure I found 2 OCZ ones but they cost $1000+

 

When do you suppose the 3.5 inch SSD will become more commonplace?

[elecxonica]

Because 2.5 fits in everything and they don't have to for performance or anything I guess.

[NJDFisher]

I'm confused... Bigger ones are older... SSDs are 2.5 inch now as standard... The smaller the better.

[TheMcSame]

When they are cheaper to make and we have a use for them. If we can fit 1TB in a 2.5" SSD why waste materials and money making a 3.5" SSD?

[Speedbird]

I suppose they're only 2.5" so you can buy any SSD for a laptop.

[Aniallation]

Cause we don't need it? 2.5" prevents them from having to make two form factors when one can do the job of either perfectly fine.

[Askew]

They don't need a bigger enclosuer and will fit in laptops and desktops alike with a 2.5'' form factor.

[rjshield]

 

This is a 250GB Samsung 840 Evo. 3.5" enclosures are not needed.

[dizmo]

 

 

This is a 250GB Samsung 840 Evo. 3.5" enclosures are not needed.

Best way to describe it.

 

 

Also, as others have stated, it doesn't make sense to manufacture a product that's only good for one purpose (desktop) when you can do the exact same thing in a smaller case for two or more (laptop, desktop).

[TeddyMcSwag]

The only reason to make 3.5" SSDs would be comparability with older cases, but you can really just use Velcro or double sided tape to mount them. Why would you make a product more expensive, but for no good?

[GoodBytes]

There was 3.5inch SSD's... no one bought them.

Why?

 -> Desktop sales are down, laptops and tablets are up (see rjshield post above)

 -> It might not provide enough savings to justify. And that was the case, the 3.5 SSDs weren't really bigger in capacity, not that much faster, their prices were similar.

 -> Those with desktop systems are seeking for smaller and compact systems. See the trend of computer case manufacture increase attention on micro ATX cases, and motherboard manufactures actuating investing in doing pretty decent to pretty darn good mATX size motherboards, now making them on par to their ATX versions. Especially that most people have 1 GPU and nothing else in their expansion slots, not even a dedicated sound card (or is external), then there is no real reason for buying an ATX board.

 -> It increases shipping and warehouse cost for no real reason.

 -> Makes warranty replacement more expensive (bigger the device, the more expensive it is to ship)

 

This is the same reason why we don't have 5.25in HDD's. You would think that larger plates would allow more capacity or practically fit 2x HDD's inside, and provide you a built-in RAID solution independent form your system (system would see it as 1 normal HDD). But nope.

[Cokeman]

Why would you want them bigger? And 2.5 in is the standard size everyone is not going to change them

[Bosspro1]

Simple People like smaller...They like smaller so that they can just slap a ssd anywhere ex-behind the mobo. B)  

[IdeaStormer]

Why stop at 3.5" SSD's? A 3.5" mSATA drive, or m.2?

 

:rolleyes:

[Akolyte]

they already have more than enough room with 2.5inch.  And smaller sizes can be adapted up, so it only makes sense for them to even make it smaller and make like like 1.5 because it could be adapted up a ton.  

[Phobophobic]

I was going to suggest 3.5 inch SSD's would allow for larger PCB's and therefore more storage chips on them, leading to higher capacities, but then I saw that image above from @rjshield.

[hojnikb]

I was going to suggest 3.5 inch SSD's would allow for larger PCB's and therefore more storage chips on them, leading to higher capacities, but then I saw that image above from @rjshield.

even though they offer more space, so you could fit more flash chips on them, the limiting factor nowdays isn't space (you can fit 16 dies at 128gbit -- thats 256GiB per PACKAGE) but rather the amount of space, controllers can adress. Nowdays pretty much everything consumer grade can only adress up to 1TB. So really, unless you want to go crazy and raid buch of controllers together and fit tens of packages on a 3.5" pcb, it really makes no sense making one.