Probably never. They're playing with it in the lab, but it's not at all certain that the increase in raw density won't be completely swallowed by the need for more ECC overhead.
Why would you be afraid that ? Their usecase is not fast, it's cheap and no one is forcing you to buy one to use as your system drive. Personally I can't wait for the day reasonably priced 4+ TB SSDs hit the market so I can ditch my large spinning media storage/backup drives and I don't care much about their performance. They will be plenty faster than what they replace no matter what.
OK so the U.3 would work on my PCIe 4.0 Asus WS x570-Ace. But if it only has a PCIe 3.0 U.2 x2 connector. I am I getting any performace value from it, say compared to a M.2 PCIe 4.0 x 4. Is the only point of the U.2 compatablity? (and taking away 2 PCIe lanes from my second M.2)
Samsung hasn't announced PCIe 4.0 for the datacenter product lines that typically share controllers with the consumer/client drives, so it's not like they're sitting on hardware that's ready to go as soon as they give it consumer-oriented firmware.
Samsung usually doesn't talk about their long-range plans for the consumer SSD product lines. We usually get an announcement no more than ~3 months before the product hits the shelves.
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jeremyshaw - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link
I still see Toshiba, does this mean they have given up on their silly renaming exercise, or is that still coming?Billy Tallis - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link
The rebrand takes effect in October.jeremyshaw - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link
Thanks. Your SSD articles are always a bright spot on Anandtech, I always enjoy seeing them.SaturnusDK - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link
Speaking of Tobisha. Any word on when we'll see the PLC (penta level cell) drives coming to market?Billy Tallis - Friday, August 30, 2019 - link
Probably never. They're playing with it in the lab, but it's not at all certain that the increase in raw density won't be completely swallowed by the need for more ECC overhead.haukionkannel - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link
Just wait for OLC (octa level cell)... I am Afraid that these will hapen eventually.Kvaern1 - Saturday, August 31, 2019 - link
Why would you be afraid that ?Their usecase is not fast, it's cheap and no one is forcing you to buy one to use as your system drive.
Personally I can't wait for the day reasonably priced 4+ TB SSDs hit the market so I can ditch my large spinning media storage/backup drives and I don't care much about their performance. They will be plenty faster than what they replace no matter what.
Tomyknee - Sunday, September 1, 2019 - link
OK so the U.3 would work on my PCIe 4.0 Asus WS x570-Ace. But if it only has a PCIe 3.0 U.2 x2 connector. I am I getting any performace value from it, say compared to a M.2 PCIe 4.0 x 4. Is the only point of the U.2 compatablity? (and taking away 2 PCIe lanes from my second M.2)Xajel - Monday, September 2, 2019 - link
Any word on Samsung's consumer PCIe 4.0 drives ?I know it will take time, but they already announced the non-consumer solutions.
Billy Tallis - Monday, September 2, 2019 - link
Samsung hasn't announced PCIe 4.0 for the datacenter product lines that typically share controllers with the consumer/client drives, so it's not like they're sitting on hardware that's ready to go as soon as they give it consumer-oriented firmware.Samsung usually doesn't talk about their long-range plans for the consumer SSD product lines. We usually get an announcement no more than ~3 months before the product hits the shelves.