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Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Fri Mar 27, 2015, 05:23 PM Mar 2015

10TB SSDs will be available next year thanks to new memory tech

SSDs and other flash memory devices will soon get cheaper and larger thanks to big announcements from Toshiba and Intel. Both companies revealed new "3D NAND" memory chips that are stacked in layers to pack in more data, unlike single-plane chips currently used. Toshiba said that it's created the world's first 48-layer NAND, yielding a 16GB chip with boosted speeds and reliability. The Japanese company invented flash memory in the first place and has the smallest NAND cells in the world at 15nm. Toshiba is now giving manufacturers engineering samples, but products using the new chips won't arrive for another year or so.

At the same time, Intel and partner Micron revealed they're now manufacturing their own 32-layer NAND chips that should also arrive in SSDs in around a year. They're sampling even larger capacity NAND memory than Toshiba, with 32GB chips available now and a 48GB version coming soon. Micron said the chips could be used to make gum-stick sized M.2 PCIe SSDs up to 3.5TB in size and 2.5-inch SSDs with 10TB of capacity -- on par with the latest hard drives. All of this means that Toshiba, Intel/Micron and companies using their chips will soon give some extra competition to Samsung, which has been using 3D NAND tech for much longer. The result will be nothing but good for consumers: higher capacity, cheaper SSDs that will make spinning hard disks sleep with one eye open.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/27/toshiba-intel-3d-nand-chips/

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10TB SSDs will be available next year thanks to new memory tech (Original Post) Bosonic Mar 2015 OP

While the high capacity flash drives are all well and good, I still have a need for 4 & 8 gig sticks -none Mar 2015 #1

Look online Bosonic Mar 2015 #2

That's a good year's plus supply. -none Mar 2015 #3

I see 4gb and 8gb sticks for sale at the grocery stores all the time usually either cstanleytech Mar 2015 #4

Cell phone and camera supplies in grocery stories? -none Mar 2015 #5

Yup, its just basic stuff though like batteries, micro usb cables, cases, small digital cameras cstanleytech Mar 2015 #6

Batteries, yes. -none Mar 2015 #7

Some stores will though have two displays for the stuff so check up front on the end caps and cstanleytech Mar 2015 #8

Damn and I just bought a 512gb one. I also have a 256gb one in the same MillennialDem Apr 2015 #9

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1. While the high capacity flash drives are all well and good, I still have a need for 4 & 8 gig sticks

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Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:23 AM

Mar 2015

But try to find any. (I prefer brick and mortar, if i can)
I sometimes do digital conversion of old prints and 35mm slides and negatives. Also cleaning up other people digital pictures. Even 4 gig is way over kill for returning the results. Cheap 4 gig flash drives are still needed.
There are plenty 32, 64 and even 128 gig flash drives for sale, but at much higher prices, which isn't worth the cost for what would be put on them.