general question about ssds

[nmhammer2]

I'm wondering why ssd manufactures only make ssds in the 2.5" form factor with the price tag they have. I would love a good ssd closer to the 1tb mark, but I would settle for one that is closer to the 3.5" form factor with reguar hdd speeds for much less.

[werto165]

So you want an SSHD? why make SSD's larger than they need to be, they don't have to accommodate for the platters. I like that SSD's are smaller tbh. 

[WereCat]

Because SSD in 3.5" form factor would be even more expensive to make.. Even if it was slower.

[LogicalDrm]

This idea has been discussed by Linus and other tech youtubers. Thing is (apparently) that current SSDs could fit even more flash chips and so capacity. But making flash chip is still that much more expensive than making platters to HDD. And if you are thinking of putting many of same chips that cheap USBs use, well it wouldn't be that much faster than good HDD, and most likely really unreliable.

[CostcoSamples]

Open up any 2.5" SSD and you'll find a fair bit of empty space inside.  Making it bigger would not make it cheaper or higher capacity.

 

If you want higher capacity at slower speeds just get an HDD.  

[W-L]

I'm wondering why ssd manufactures only make ssds in the 2.5" form factor with the price tag they have. I would love a good ssd closer to the 1tb mark, but I would settle for one that is closer to the 3.5" form factor with reguar hdd speeds for much less.

 

Then get a HDD... why would you want an SSD with HDD type speeds that seems to defeats the purpose.

 

As for 3.5" SSD's they did exist for a while when OCZ was big they had them for larger sized SSD's. Now that density has gotten better on NAND chips we can fit more per GB in a single space so it's cheaper to have fewer chips than a lot of small capacity ones in a larger form factor.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Open up any 2.5" SSD and you'll find a fair bit of empty space inside.  Making it bigger would not make it cheaper or higher capacity.

 

If you want higher capacity at slower speeds just get an HDD.  

[nmhammer2]

Then get a HDD... why would you want an SSD with HDD type speeds that seems to defeats the purpose.

 

As for 3.5" SSD's they did exist for a while when OCZ was big they had them for larger sized SSD's. Now that density has gotten better on NAND chips we can fit more per GB in a single space so it's cheaper to have fewer chips than a lot of small capacity ones in a larger form factor.

the reliability is what I'm after. The speeds are nice but if my laptop falls i dont want all my stuff just gone. what i was think was using older not so fancy components.

[W-L]

the reliability is what I'm after. The speeds are nice but if my laptop falls i dont want all my stuff just gone. what i was think was using older not so fancy components.

 

I would say in a laptop an SSD is a better option even than a HDD especially if it was to be accidentally dropped the HDD could potentially get damaged where the SSD wouldn't even care. If your worried about writes on SSD's are pretty good theses days, just to give you an idea the 850 Evo has a 75TB write period where it is guaranteed for warranty and the older 840 drives have been tested to be able to write a couple of pentabytes until failure.

[Coaxialgamer]

I'm wondering why ssd manufactures only make ssds in the 2.5" form factor with the price tag they have. I would love a good ssd closer to the 1tb mark, but I would settle for one that is closer to the 3.5" form factor with reguar hdd speeds for much less.

Because ssd manufacturers are not limited by the size/density of 2.5, but rather by the cost of the nand chips. Making a 3.5 inch ssd would make no sense as you wouldnt be able to make it hold more data because of price anyway.