SSD Storage: 2018 in review

Post by franciscop » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:21 AM UTC

woolvalley wrote: post #42

franciscop wrote: post #17

I've been following the news and it's amazing how SSDs are still progressing, a bit slower but similar to Moore's Law. Prices for Samsung SSD 1TB external USB products: - 2015 $600: Samsung T1 http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/samsung-portable-ssd... - 2016 $430: Samsung T3 https://www.storagereview.com/samsung_portable_ssd_t3_review - 2018 $200: Samsung T5 https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/12/samsung-t5-po…

I wouldn't use external SSDs as the price benchmark, since they had a big price premium over an equivalent mSATA SSD back then. For example, I bought a 1TB samsung mSATA SSD in 2015 for about $320 and it's enclosure for $15. The equivalent SSD today is about $150. So instead of a 3x price decrease in the past 3 years, it's more like a 2x price decrease.

Post by dylan604 » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:33 AM UTC

franciscop wrote: post #70

dylan604 wrote: post #67

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To be fair, the $200 1TB SSD linked above is just a standard 2.5" SSD where the Apple SSDs are M.2 with triple the I/O speeds. These Apple(s) can't be compared to the list of oranges above.

No it is not, I linked to the external Thunderbolt SSD (last one) so there are many more pieces involved in the Samsung SSD. But it's true that the Apple one is a lot faster since it's internal.

Post by oofabz » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 6:52 AM UTC

gammateam wrote: post #65

baroffoos wrote: post #26

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I await the day I can fill my NAS with SSDs. Might save on power usage as well.

I had planned on doing this but even with gigabit wifi, and half gigabit transfer speeds for the SSD, NAS encryption algorithms seems to cap the transmission speeds to around 100 megabytes per second I have all the parts I just haven't formatted my SSDs to go into the NAS yet and I'm not sure if I will

Post by franciscop » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 7:53 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #73

franciscop wrote: post #70

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No it is not, I linked to the external Thunderbolt SSD (last one) so there are many more pieces involved in the Samsung SSD. But it's true that the Apple one is a lot faster since it's internal.

Sure, it connects via thunderbolt, but it's still just a SATA style SSD (max speeds around 550MBps). I'd love to find an external M.2 to get 1200MBps via external, but this seems to be a unicorn still. Although, I'm still happy to have 550MBps on a SATA SSD vs 110MBps via platters.

Post by vehementi » Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 8:10 AM UTC

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This is the new Apple RAM surcharge — remember back when Apple let you swap out DIMMs, they would charge 3-5x market rate betting you wouldn’t. Now they’re doing it on SSDs but you can’t get away :) If you follow the r/buildapcsales it’s pretty eats to get a 1TB 2.5” SSD from a top manufacturer for under $120, and M.2 for $20-30 more. I just got a Crucial MX500 1TB for $114 all in.

I would counter that the SSD's aren't entirely the same. The most comparable consumer NVME M.2 would be the 960 pro and it's still around $300. Definitely cheaper than Apple, but it's also not in the $150 range for the same performance.