THE 4TB STORAGE WARS ARE HEATING UP: KIOXIA'S NEW SSD PUNCHES ABOVE ITS WEIGHT CLASS
Kioxia just dropped a bombshell for PC builders and power users: a 4TB variant of their Exceria G3 M.2 Gen 5 NVMe SSD. This isn't just more storage; it's a significant capacity bump in a series that previously topped out at 2TB. The surprise? It achieves this massive capacity while maintaining the same blistering speeds as its smaller siblings – think up to 10 GB/s sequential reads and 9.6 GB/s writes.
This move challenges the notion that higher capacity inherently means lower performance, especially with QLC NAND. Kioxia's pairing of a DRAMless Phison E31T controller with their 218-layer BiCS8 3D QLC NAND seems to hit a sweet spot, delivering console-rivaling speeds without needing a dedicated cooling solution, drawing a mere 6.4W peak. It’s a bold statement in the ultra-fast storage market, even if pricing remains a mystery for now.
Source: TechPowerUp
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I want to buy a second drive but i'm cucked by my desires to have dram in it, while a dramless nvme could get me 2TB for vidya drive for the same price but moar storage
Breaking: $SIMO launches its SM2524XT PCIe Gen5 DRAMless SSD controller for AI PCs, delivering up to 14 GB/s sequential read speeds, 2.5 million IOPS and 25% higher performance per watt.
And especially those that cheaped out with DRAMless SSDs.. no onboard cache, uses system memory and then no flushing is a looming disaster.
So no buffer flushing on Cacheless drives increasing RAM usage might even excessively hurt gane performance way more.
That's nice, still isn't a stick of Dram and doesn't use Dram.
Just so you know going forward Samsung 990 EVO Plus is Dramless ssd. So again that post has zero to do with original post on Dram and Dram prices, since it doesn't even use it.
I recently received a fake Kingston KC3000 SSD that was a relabelled Chinese KORX P402. Interesting scam, capacity is real and it has Micron NAND but the KORX drive is DRAMless. (I've been refunded)