http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/ Engadget Comments for Seagate teams with LSI to enter PCIe-based SSD game http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/
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More like 80gb from IOXtreme.]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/
No one else is quite doing what FusionIO is, and as a result FusionIO tends to be a whole lot faster (in addition to not being bound at any point by SATA bandwidth limits.)]]>Jan 26th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/When did they cut a penny into 10ths!?]]>Jan 26th 2010 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/::sigh::]]>Jan 26th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/
There is no reason that SSD's should still be so overpriced; especially not considering the scale of memory IC production now!!!!!!!

If apple can build the 64GB touch for $180 (of which the 64GB of memory comprize less that %15 of that cost, then you ought to be able to produce and retail a 256gb for under $200... so stop being greedy and give to the needy~ ]]>Jan 26th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/The flash memory in the iPod Touch is no where near as fast as what's in the SSD drives you put in your computer.
Just because stuff like SD and CF cards are solid state does not make them fast.]]>Jan 26th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Wow. You're kidding, right?]]>Jan 26th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Your comparing simple 10mb/s MLC based NAND storage to a SLC based SSD with an onboard memory controller that is more than 15 times faster an the simple iPod storage?]]>Jan 26th 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Almost all NAND used in SSDs is made on 300mm wafers at 45-30nm today.

But why, you ask, are SSDs so expensive? It's called manufacturing losses.

Each chip in an SSD is not a single NAND chip, but several, anywhere from four to eight chips in a single package. First, you have individual die that are simply bad. Then you have chips that, for some reason or another, fail to make it through the assembly process.

An SSD, properly designed, writes to as many different chips at a time as it possibly can. This is where SSDs get all of their speed from (barring the memory controller being junk.) This moves cost into the board design and into the controller chip itself (the FusionIO's FPGA costs $500 on its own.)

Then we have the standard economy of scale. SSDs simply aren't manufactured in the sheer volume that regular HDDs are.

And the only similarity between a 16GB iPod Touch and an SSD are the media on which data is stored. Everything about how it's architected internally is different.]]>Jan 26th 2010 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/SSDs will displace HDDs for high speed storage but they won't leave them in the dust. With the density wall that NAND is going to hit within the next 3 years, HDDs will continue to win on density for the near term.

They'll come down in price if major vendors like Dell and HP start shipping them in volume, but that looks to be a while off (the high end needs to absorb a bit more cost.)]]>Jan 26th 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 26th 2010 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/seagate-teams-with-lsi-to-enter-pcie-based-ssd-game/Jan 27th 2010 1:46AM