SK Hynix Debuts New 3D NAND On M.2 NVMe SSD - First To Challenge Samsung

[It's me!]

SK Hynix became the first non-Samsung fab to roll out 3D NAND, and it slapped it on a little M.2 NVMe rocket ship. The SSD is pretty impressive, up to 160K IOPS and 1,700 MB/s in a slim form factor, hard not to like that!

 

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The SK Hynix PE3110 comes packing the company's new 3D NAND V2, which is the debut of the first non-Samsung 3D NAND to hit the market—and it is also the first datacenter-class M.2 NVMe SSD to hit our lab.

SK Hynix utilizes its proprietary 8-channel Pegasus PCIe 3.0 x4 controller to provide up to 160,000/30,000 random read/write IOPS. The roomy PCIe interface provides up to 1,700/750 MB/s of sequential read/write throughput, which easily surpasses SATA SSDs.

 

 

 

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/sk-hynix-pe3110-enterprise-m.2-ssd-3d-nand-v2,2-1042.html

 

[zMeul]

wasn't Intel & Micron's 3D XPoint 2nd?!

[BobbyG2]

Yay, more competition! I wonder when PCI-E 4x M.2 SSDS will drop in price to near current high-end SATA SSD prices. Current prices are a little ridiculous to justify the expense, but I'm still itching to fill the slot on my mobo to use as an OS/program/games that I heavily modify like Skyrim, drive.

[Agosto]

Me want


Seriously, I'd just want a 1-2TB 3D NAND M.2 SSD for storage, I don't really care about speed; already have a 950 Pro for that.

[Doobeedoo]

Nice, good to see more NVMe SSDs and looking forward for price dropping more and more.

[SurvivorNVL]

Mmm.  Look at all that PLP on it.  Makes my stomach feel all fluttery.

[Sakkura]

4 hours ago, zMeul said:

wasn't Intel & Micron's 3D XPoint 2nd?!

3DXPoint isn't NAND flash of any kind. It's a completely new type of non-volatile memory. 

 

Also, product launch is probably around a year away. 

[patrickjp93]

Technically Intel did this first with the M.2 drives it has in the Broadwell NUCs which have the same 3D NAND as their 750 NVMe drive, but Hynix is the first to directly sell a competitor.

[bcredeur97]

i really wish apple would of used a standard for the PCIe ssd's in the macs... i thought about getting a 512GB for my macbook pro (which was a gift from someone) but NOPE.

[Agosto]

8 hours ago, patrickjp93 said:

Technically Intel did this first with the M.2 drives it has in the Broadwell NUCs which have the same 3D NAND as their 750 NVMe drive, but Hynix is the first to directly sell a competitor.

AFAIK the 750 has planar NAND.

[Trik'Stari]

12 hours ago, Agost said:

Me want


Seriously, I'd just want a 1-2TB 3D NAND M.2 SSD for storage, I don't really care about speed; already have a 950 Pro for that.

^this.

 

I want storage size, for ma games. Damned loading screens.

[patrickjp93]

30 minutes ago, Agost said:

AFAIK the 750 has planar NAND.

No...

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/micron-and-intel-unveil-new-3d-nand-flash-memory/

 

http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/matthew-wilson/intel-shows-off-new-ssds-with-3d-nand/

 

The 750 is just the non-enterprise version of this. Exact same NAND chips.

[Agosto]

28 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

No...

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/micron-and-intel-unveil-new-3d-nand-flash-memory/

 

http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/matthew-wilson/intel-shows-off-new-ssds-with-3d-nand/

 

The 750 is just the non-enterprise version of this. Exact same NAND chips.

There's no mention of the 750 in those links

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/ssd-750-spec.pdf

These specs from Intel are reporting " 20nm MLC NAND", there's nothing about 3D NAND

Moreover, it has 128Gb chips (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9090/intel-ssd-750-pcie-ssd-review-nvme-for-the-client), and AFAIK the first 3D MLC chips from Intel are 256Gb each.

[NateGSR117]

sweet! I just want the price to go down so I can get more fast storage. 

[Stefan1024]

The drive is good, Samsung seriousely needs some competition.

 

BUT the huge amount of tantalum condensators used are VERY bad. Digging for tantalum is extremly polluting and as en engineer myself I try to do everything to avoid them.

I assume the design constrains where terrible, but please you can't use so many of them.

[It's me!]

10 hours ago, Stefan1024 said:

The drive is good, Samsung seriousely needs some competition.

 

BUT the huge amount of tantalum condensators used are VERY bad. Digging for tantalum is extremly polluting and as en engineer myself I try to do everything to avoid them.

I assume the design constrains where terrible, but please you can't use so many of them.

There really isnt any good alternative for power loss protection at this stage. 

[Dabombinable]

Now can they get around to at least challenging Samsung in regards to the quality of their GDDR5?

[potoooooooo]

9 hours ago, It's me! said:

There really isnt any good alternative for power loss protection at this stage. 

As in, suddenly losing power?

 

M8 put a tiny UPS onto it then if that shits so bad

[Stefan1024]

9 hours ago, It's me! said:

There really isnt any good alternative for power loss protection at this stage. 

Super-Cap / Gold-Cap, (recharge) battery, better algorithm so you can write the data faster into the flash, so you don't need that much energy, ...

There is a lot of variables I can think about. In an other project we once used a 0.4 mm thick Li-Ion battery that was intrgrated into a ragular bank card format.