Anyone who has been a tech fan over the years knows that storage capacity is important and that the cost for it consistently goes down. But if Intel and Micron have a say in all of this, these two electronics industry giants will be making a great leap in affordable SSD storage devices for MacBooks and other electronics according to an important announcement they made Wednesday about this.
PC World said of this new development:
The new 3D NAND technology stacks flash cells vertically in 32 layers to achieve a 256Gbit multilevel cell (MLC) and 384Gbit triple-level cell (TLC) die that fit within a standard package.”
In regular everyday human speak, it means tripling the storage capacity in the same amount of space that a 2.5 or 3.5-inch drive takes up through denser memory configurations.
Pump You Up
What this all boils down to is a ready-to-go 10TB SSD that can be used for MacBooks, which already uses SSD tech inside. But the most you can get right now is about 512GB of flash storage. With the intro of a 10TB flash drive, you’ll be able store as many movies, videos, music, and apps to your heart’s content and access them in a flash, so to speak.
Not Ready for Prime Time
All this great news is just that so far, production ready devices aren’t available yet. But the good news is that since the announcement on Wednesday, there was a demo device shown, so it can only be a short amount of time before this new tech is available to the general public.
Down the Road
The implications of enhanced storage capacity via the new 3D NAND technology may revolutionize smartphones, tablets, computers, and just about anything that needs on-board storage.
As the initial cost of SSDs come dramatically down, the mechanical hard disk drive (HDD), which for all intents and purposes has remained unchanged in its basic operations since it was invented in 1954, may finally start the exit of this decades old technology.
Brian Shirley, Vice President of Memory Technology and Solutions at Micron Technology said:
This 3D NAND technology has the potential to create fundamental market shifts. The depth of the impact that flash has had to date—from smartphones to flash-optimized supercomputing—is really just scratching the surface of what's possible.”
Source: PCWorld
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