Sunday, January 10th 2016

Mushkin Shows Off a 500-Dollar 4 TB SSD

How to make headlines with a rather mainstream SSD controller like the Silicon Motion SM2246EN? Ask Mushkin - after unveiling a 2 TB variant of the Reactor SSD, which maxes out the NAND flash capacity limit for the SM2246EN controller, the company also showed off a prototype of its 4 TB variant, which overcomes the capacity limitation by doing a good old-fashioned multi-controller SSD subunit RAID, which is host-transparent. Your machine reads the drive as 4 TB, while internally, it's a JBOD of two 2 TB Reactor subunits.

The drive uses 3D MLC NAND flash to keep densities high. It features a standard SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and ships in a standard 7 mm-thick, 2.5-inch form-factor. The best part? Mushkin plans to sell the drive at $500, or $0.125/GB, making it an exciting game folder drive option. In addition to the Reactor duo, Mushkin unveiled a 1920 GB variant of the Striker, a performance-oriented drive based on the Phison PS3110-S10 controller, with faster MLC NAND flash chips. This drive could be pricier.
Source: TechReport
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59 Comments on Mushkin Shows Off a 500-Dollar 4 TB SSD

#51
cadaveca
My name is Dave
ThE_MaD_ShOtI am using 2x 2tb hdd's for my game drives so I know what ya mean buddy. :toast:
Man, but I don't have half of my STEAM library installed, and my 4 TB drive is nearly full!! :pimp:

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#52
PP Mguire
I have a 6TB HGST sitting in my server for games which is pretty much full and the 512GB Crucial in my machine is always filled with straight Steam library.
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#53
Basard
AsRockSounds like other company's are either doing it wrong or they are just plain ripping us off.
Ripping us off?! No way! :laugh:
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#54
hellrazor
cdawallAlso is there anyway to force raid 0 as opposed to JBOD?
JBOD is linear, so you could probably just use mdadm to split it in half (or give yourself a gig or two of elbow room in the middle) and put the pieces in a RAID-0 array. Your motherboard might hate you for it, though.
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#55
Prima.Vera
AsRockSounds like other company's are either doing it wrong or they are just plain ripping us off.
How else would they make net profits in billions??
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#56
Peter1986C
By ripping off the workers even more then they might rip off consumers?
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#57
AsRock
TPU addict
Peter1986CBy ripping off the workers even more then they might rip off consumers?
Well that's why shits made in the other country.
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#58
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
cdawallAlso is there anyway to force raid 0 as opposed to JBOD?
I don't think it would make much difference. The single Reactor drive is already pushing pretty close to the SATA limit. So running in RAID0, you're still going over a single SATA connection, so the speed wouldn't really be any better.
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#59
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
newtekie1I don't think it would make much difference. The single Reactor drive is already pushing pretty close to the SATA limit. So running in RAID0, you're still going over a single SATA connection, so the speed wouldn't really be any better.
True, it should be on sata express then this wouldn't be an issue.
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