[TPU] SSDs Are Doomed: Researchers

[FaridAhmed]

The scientists studied 45 different flash chips in various sizes, which showed that scaling of latencies and error-rates are 'tolerable' enough as the technology miniaturizes only till 6.5 nm, or the year 2024, when this fab process will be common, beyond which they question the drives' viability. Beyond this point, the more capacity you squeeze into flash memory chips, the more performance degrade (latency and error-rate scale beyond tolerable scales).

Source: TechPowerUp

[K3yser]

Dunno... I saw a Kingston SSD 128 gig SSD boot recently was really blown away by the timings! the disconcerting thing Ive heard is that after a fixed no. of read/write cycles the performance curve drops,,, much sooner and faster than a conventional SATA/IDE drive.

interestingly, I remember hearing the same argument u give here in case of IDE Drives when new 120-160 gig HDDs were coming (early 1999-2000 I think...)