Crucial Unveils Ballistix TX3 PCIe NVMe SSD in the M.2 Form-factor

[btarunr]

Crucial is ready with a high-performance SSD in the M.2 form-factor, which leverages 32 Gb/s PCI-Express, and the NVMe protocol to belt out four to five times the read/write performance of SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs. The new Crucial Ballistix TX3 line of M.2 SSDs features the Silicon Motion SMI2260H processor, mated to Crucial-made 3D (stacked) MLC NAND flash, cushioned by a large DRAM cache. A similar setup is found on the ADATA SX8000NP, and the sequential speeds of that drive are rated at up to 2,000 MB/s reads, with up to 800 MB/s writes.



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[Chaitanya]

Crucial is excellent at milking money from investors using vaporware.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Crucial is excellent at milking money from investors using vaporware.

I can go onto newegg and buy many different ssds and memory from crucial. where is that vaporware?

 

[Chaitanya]

I can go onto newegg and buy many different ssds and memory from crucial. where is that vaporware?

Try to find these modules on their website: (newegg seems to list one kit for sale with 16GB modules but that too has been made available after 1 year since this PR)
http://www.techpowerup.com/213091/crucial-announces-ballistix-ddr4-16gb-memory-modules

There are a lot of memory product that crucial announces that never make it to market. I suspect this M.2 SSD is going to be one of them.

Edit: its been 3 years since Samsung introduced their 3D Nand still Micron/Crucial have no 3D Nand based product , even their X-Point based(co developed with Intel) product which was apparent going to be made available this year.

Edit: Crucial has finally listed their 16gb modules on website, after 1 year of announcement of product.

 

[R-T-B]

Crucial admitted their 3d NAND timetable was nearly 2 years behind Samsung, just FYI.

 

[Caring1]

I expect Ballistix brand to be cheap and fully RGB

 

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Edit: its been 3 years since Samsung introduced their 3D Nand still Micron/Crucial have no 3D Nand based product , even their X-Point based(co developed with Intel) product which was apparent going to be made available this year.

Well, if they thought they can bring X-Point to the market faster, it's no wonder they didn't go all-in with V-NAND, is it?

Also, vaporware refers to products that fail to materialise, not products releases way after their initial announcement.

 

[Chaitanya]

Well, if they thought they can bring X-Point to the market faster, it's no wonder they didn't go all-in with V-NAND, is it?

Also, vaporware refers to products that fail to materialise, not products releases way after their initial announcement.

Intel has acknowledged that Xpoint is going to expensive and might end up being enterprise product rather than enthusiast grade at launch. The main problem with not having competing products to Samsung, is that Samsung is ruling the roost in SSDs at this point(also their warranty program is thousands times better than any other manufacturers). Even when it comes to Crucial's 16GB modules they were supposed to made available last July, which seem to be made available nearly a year late. Sending press releases for products and then delaying them endlessly doesn't sound right at all. I know what Vaporware is but these stupid endless delays for product releases also doesnt bode well for their market share. On another note all these Micron/Crucial 3D Nand chips are TLC Nand and Not MLC Nand which is what Crucial was using for their previous MX series of SSDs.

 

[bug]

Intel has acknowledged that Xpoint is going to expensive and might end up being enterprise product rather than enthusiast grade at launch. The main problem with not having competing products to Samsung, is that Samsung is ruling the roost in SSDs at this point(also their warranty program is thousands times better than any other manufacturers). Even when it comes to Crucial's 16GB modules they were supposed to made available last July, which seem to be made available nearly a year late. Sending press releases for products and then delaying them endlessly doesn't sound right at all. I know what Vaporware is but these stupid endless delays for product releases also doesnt bode well for their market share.

A fair point, but if this would really affect their sales, they wouldn't be doing it. Personally, I'd love nothing more than the press giving the finger to anything that's not a hard launch, but what can you do?

On another note all these Micron/Crucial 3D Nand chips are TLC Nand and Not MLC Nand which is what Crucial was using for their previous MX series of SSDs.

True, but if you look at the technology, 3D TLC is just as durable as planar MLC. It may be a tad slower, but I have both in my desktop right now and I'm not feeling any difference between them. (I know, "I'm not feeling", the best metric in the world.)