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  • BrokenCrayons - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    It's nice to see 3D MLC on a SATA controller for those of us with older systems. I haven't owned a Mushkin Reactor in the past, but I'm probably going to be looking for a ~500GB SSD in the next few months so maybe one of these would suffice if the price is reasonable.
  • Alexvrb - Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - link

    SATA drives will still be important for the foreseeable future. Heck, in the future high end systems may use a cheaper SATA SSD for mass storage in place of a HDD. You'll have an NVMe M.2 (or PCIe expansion card) SSD for your main drive, and a slower SATA SSD for secondary storage. Yes the speed boost might be a benefit, but to me the main advantages are higher reliability and zero noise/vibration vs a mechanical drive. Good for silent systems. Although suspended (or otherwise heavily decoupled from the chassis) HDDs are pretty darn quiet even under load.

    But the cost/GB still needs to come down substantially before they have a shot at replacing HDDs for secondary storage purposes. SSDs have been getting faster but cost/GB has virtually stalled for a long time.
  • Glock24 - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    Why is the MLC drive slower than the TLC one? Are the specs swapped?
  • K_Space - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    Could be because of the larger capacity of the TLC drives - (it says up to)?
  • Samus - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    It likely comes down to SLC cache trickery.

    The MLC drive will have overall better steady state performance; the TLC drive is just going to burst faster for very short intervals.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    So they go to 3d nand, but dont bother going above 1TB?

    Bit of a swing and a miss there.
  • SunnyNW - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    From the article "Larger capacities are likely to be introduced when NAND prices get back down to reasonable levels, but that may not happen until it's time to move to 64-layer 3D NAND."
  • Drumsticks - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    ARMOR3D?

    ...sigh. It's a mainstream SATA SSD. Why it needs a gamer tag eludes me. Ah well. It's nice to see more 3D MLC showing up in mainstream.
  • Hurr Durr - Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - link

    Because gamers don`t need anything above mainstream SSD, duh.
  • Ej24 - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    SO glad to see MLC isn't dead yet. I've been very disheartened by the lack of MLC drive recently. I found a supplier with surplus MX200 drives from Crucial and snapped up 2 1TB drives. The last good SSD Crucial put out. With the current race to the bottom I wouldn't be surprised if we see Quad Level Cell Nand...
  • Bullwinkle J Moose - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    Ej24 says....
    "SO glad to see MLC isn't dead yet."
    -------------------------------------------------

    It will be sooner than I 'd like

    Newegg has "ZERO" Samsung 850 Pro's left in stock under 2TB

    All you can get now is refurbished 830/840 series

    The newegg Marketplace has 850 Pro's listed but with incorrect specs like the 128GB 850 Pro which Samsung never made

    How many other ancient SSD's are being mislabelled I wonder?
  • Bullwinkle J Moose - Monday, June 12, 2017 - link

    I guess Samsung did make a 128GB 850 Pro

    I just don't recall seeing one before now

    Oh well

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