Intel and Micron Announce 3D NAND Production, Open Gates to 10 TB SSDs

[Amit Moryossef]

New NAND manufacturing process stacks memory cells for higher-capacity, lower-cost solid-state storageIntel and Micron revealed on March 26 that they have teamed up and developed a NAND technology that is so dense, that it will allow creating SSDs with over 10 terabytes of capacity.

Although it might seem like these high capacity drives would be very expensive, the technology will not only enable high-capacity SSDs, but it is also assumed that it will drive down the prices on smaller SSDs.

The technology, on a basic level, is easy to understand. Traditional memory chips are built on a single plane, but 3D NAND stacks the memory cells vertically. In doing so it greatly increases the potential data capacity of a single chip. Intel and Micron are quoting a maximum capacity of 48GB per memory die. Since solid state drives host multiple chips, this puts the maximum capacity around 3.5 terabytes for a small M.2 drive (as you might find in a thin laptop, or Intel’s NUC) and over ten terabytes for a 2.5” SSD.

The new 3D NAND will offer over three times the capacity of traditional NAND, a smaller cost per gigabyte, and greater durability and longevity of the memory cells.

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[RazeG3SG1]

Omg!!! I was expecting Micron, but Intel+Micron??? That's a big win!

[PerfectTemplar]

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[babadoctor]

OHLY SHMOWZOW! 10TB SSD? HOW MUCH IS THAT, 23246432562 DOLLARS?

[NeverNotExhausted]

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How uptight do you wanna get there mate. It's still news

[babadoctor]

How uptight do you wanna get there mate. It's still news

lolololo

[SurvivorNVL]

If 2tb or 3tb SSD's can take the price-point of high class 1tb's at $500-600.  I'd be so damn happy.  1tb at $300 seems to be the trend slowly with all the new Patriot, Mushkin and other brand drives, so hopefully that is going to happen much faster, and with this--I will -happily- take a 2tb Intel 2.5" drive *_*   Still waiting on those 750 NVME drives.  Just.. 6 more days.  Only 6 more damn days.

[Amit Moryossef]

If 2tb or 3tb SSD's can take the price-point of high class 1tb's at $500-600.  I'd be so damn happy.  1tb at $300 seems to be the trend slowly with all the new Patriot, Mushkin and other brand drives, so hopefully that is going to happen much faster, and with this--I will -happily- take a 2tb Intel 2.5" drive *_*   Still waiting on those 750 NVME drives.  Just.. 6 more days.  Only 6 more damn days.

Can you give source to that?

 

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Fixed it.. Guidelines are not everything when the article is self explainitary.

[SurvivorNVL]

Can you give source to that?

 

Fixed it.. Guidelines are not everything when the article is self explainitary.

This:  http://www.intelgamingpromo.com/intel15b/ssd/notice   And then:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVqUiMmcJSU   And:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP0s8EApvsk  

The 750 NVME drives have been awaited for awhile now.  They've been popping up in manifests and reports for close to a year now, but only finally are they actually possibly coming out.  With a max capacity of I believe 1.2tb or 2tb based on some of the older articles if I remember.  They should be blistering fast given Asus and Asrock have already updated most of their x99 boards with NVME(NVMEHCI) support.  So long Sata / AHCI!

[blu4]

Even though we can afford to buy a 256GB SSD, 10TB is out of equation

[Amit Moryossef]

This:  http://www.intelgamingpromo.com/intel15b/ssd/notice   And then:  

  And:  

 

The 750 NVME drives have been awaited for awhile now.  They've been popping up in manifests and reports for close to a year now, but only finally are they actually possibly coming out.  With a max capacity of I believe 1.2tb or 2tb based on some of the older articles if I remember.  They should be blistering fast given Asus and Asrock have already updated most of their x99 boards with NVME(NVMEHCI) support.  So long Sata / AHCI!

Ok.. thanks

Ill wait for price and compatabillity with a bit older hardware

 

Even though we can afford to buy a 256GB SSD, 10TB is out of equation

But the price per gig is lower, so we say up to 10TB, but in reality it can be even a 512gigs model with lower price

[Shotgun]

[blu4]

Ok.. thanks

Ill wait for price and compatabillity with a bit older hardware

 

But the price per gig is lower, so we say up to 10TB, but in reality it can be even a 512gigs model with lower price

I assume it's going to be $800 for 10TB. Not kidding. But that's a lot of storage regardless and gig per $ is awesome. If they release stages 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 TB then it will be heaven <3

[Agosto]

I assume it's going to be $800 for 10TB. Not kidding. But that's a lot of storage regardless and gig per $ is awesome. If they release stages 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 TB then it will be heaven <3

U mad bro

No way, that would be 8cent/GB, too low for now. That's the price for a 10 TB hard drive

[Homicidium]

10TB SSD's? Yes please!

[Syntaxvgm]

Will probably cost more than my whole desktop. Cant wait until the day something like this is not only available, but somewhat cheap. I would love a 10TB laptop, or a 20TB one with raid 1. 10TB that's drop-proof AND mirrored? Fuck yea. 

[blu4]

U mad bro

No way, that would be 8cent/GB, too low for now. That's the price for a 10 TB hard drive

Yea, I mad.

[ChineseChef]

So, is this one actually going to come to market even remotely soon?  I recall that sandisk(or someone) was supposed to be releasing 4tb SSDs last year, with 8tb early this year, with 16tb by the end of this year.  I feel like this is the same as all those articles and times companies have stated they are ready to release technology X with HDDs that will takes us from 3tb to 30tb!! or 100TB!!!!!!   And yet, those announcements are made every year for the last 10 years.  I am under no delusion that R&D takes time and money, but its hard to get the hype up when they make these insane "omg huge drives" announcements every other month, then nothing shows up for 5-10 years later. 

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for the future, but I hate when companies try to sell the future as if they are ready to ship products.

[SurvivorNVL]

I assume it's going to be $800 for 10TB. Not kidding. But that's a lot of storage regardless and gig per $ is awesome. If they release stages 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 TB then it will be heaven <3

If we look at the current pricing, then we can assume that 10tb would likely be around $1500 - $4000 if it were Sata only based.  BUT--that's a -lot- of space, for a crap ton of reliability, and a -lot- of speed.  If they get the size going to compete with HDD's.  All that is needed is price.  All I need is a good 2 - 3tb Sata SSD or a 2tb NVME drive and a 1tb SSD for game storage.  *_*

[SirSquid]

Sweet!!!! This might just kill off HDDs.

[SeriousDad69]

A decent 128GB SSD is $100, I don't want to even think about how much a 10TB SSD will cost.
I'll stick to 1TB hard drives for $50 a pop thank you, maybe do Raid 0 or 5.

[Doobeedoo]

Oh my, I can hope that by 2020 I could have 10TB SSD with price of 1TB one now. Yeah...

[themaniac]

thats gonna be expensive

[mattblahmatt]

This is amazing, Like, how far can we go? 

[ChineseChef]

This is amazing, Like, how far can we go? 

 

How far??   ALL THE WAY!!!