Samsung starts mass producing PM9E1 Gen 5M.2 drive with speeds up to 14.5 GB/s
(tomshardware.com)12 points by elorant 5 hours ago
12 points by elorant 5 hours ago
4TB seems like the upper end for most normal consumers, I would hazard. We had 1-2TB HDDs a decade ago, and there's been little reason to go higher in the consumer space. Arguably SSDs only now getting cheap enough at those capacities might have limited it, but even so I think we're running out of things that consume that much space.
Video and pictures are the main culprit (even in games), but 4k is likely to be the upper end of consumer usage for the forseeable future, photos have been 20-40MP for a decade, and perceivable quality benefits from going higher are fairly minimal. We can always use more space, but from a practical perspective there's not the same explosion in space required from everything else scaling to use it, I'd say.
SSDs still degrade, though - Optane was mooted for something like this, but still ended up being too expensive and not good enough at either (unprofitable) in the end.
Pushing 10GB/s on an SSD with 1000TBW write endurance would kill it in ~ 100000s, or a little over a day of continuous usage - and I'd expect a GPU probably would come kind of close.
It's going to be rough without Anandtech reporting anymori wonder if a new outlet will spring up to fill the void.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41399872
Here's to hoping this PM9E1 drive makes it into the Samsung EVO 9x series drives..
I'm curious why the capacity only goes to 4TB, aren't there a bunch of 8TB NVMe's out there? When will we see consumer-grade 16TB SSDs? Capacity hasn't seemed to increase in more than half a decade.