300% faster SSDs

[Bozo]

Really fast.

 

[LunarMist]

Really fast.

Huh? It seems like another way to reduce write amplification, but that would not increase the performance in all situations.

 

[CougTek]

I'd take it anyway.

 

[Handruin]

I'd love to see the changes before and after. That's a decent claim of improvement. I'm skeptically optimistic.

 

[sechs]

I'm skeptically skeptical.

I don't think that this means much for the desktop. Performance wise, how far up in the server load scale would you have to go for this to be really meaningful?

 

[Howell]

You would only get a speed improvement if your drive is more than 80% full of its total space. This probably has more benefit to the manufacturers as they would not have to over spec the drive space as much to combat write amplification.

 

[sechs]

So, really, this is just going to make drives cheaper.

Not a bad thing, but I don't see this moving the dial very far until you get to large capacities.

 

[Howell]

So, really, this is just going to make drives cheaper.

Not a bad thing, but I don't see this moving the dial very far until you get to large capacities.

At its core it will decrease per unit overhead for SSDs. What the manufs do with the difference is a matter of strategy.