SK.Hynix Gold S31 SATA SSDs Launched

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croakz

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Probably worth noting:

  • Superior reliability and stability (MTBF/TBW). 1.5 Million Hours MTBF, best-in-class 600 TBW (terabytes written)
 

Evan

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Would have been a little excited by 2TB versions and a lot more interested at 4TB and 8TB units while costing 20% less. Of course street prices we will see soon where they settle.

SATA is still king for low power bulk storage... won’t be long before NVMe takes that but it’s a lot more effort to put a lot of NVMe in a system compared to just piling in 2.5” drives.
 

croakz

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SATA for consumer drives like these makes sense. But there's still a lot of room for value SAS for the enterprise. Same price as enterprise SATA, and it's nearly a straight replacement, versus design changes for NVME.
 

Evan

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Oh yeah the HPE, Dell, etc love SAS - gives them highly available way to make raid that doesn’t care about the operating system in use and easy for people to understand, was more thinking some cloud use case and home etc.

Time will tell soon enough what prevails but NVMe being controller less means software redundancy... Microsoft OS boot disks ha ha ha ha, maybe a few releases away it has a idiot user workable option but not holding my breath.