Gigabyte Promises 219,000 TBW for New AI TOP 100E SSD

[remixedcat]

I suspect not. The SN520 is a very low-performance Gen3x2 SSD that is better than a SATA drive but not by much. Either way, it's normally used in small spaces and is probably a M.2 2242 size that's physically too small to have room for a DRAM chip anyway. It's also so old that it predates HMB, so it's just a slow SSD, period. That probably doesn't matter too much though - even a SATA drive is fast enough that most consumer applications don't really benefit from anything faster. If you were running an i9 or Ryzen9 and doing heavy write-intensive workloads then sure, it'd feel like a turd - but for everyday booting, gaming, web-browsing it's likely to be plenty fast enough.

The BC901 is another low-end drive that's DRAMless for sure, but at least it's Gen4x4 and supports HMB so the lack of DRAM isn't a big deal.

Specs of the system it's in
Dell Precision 3550: Intel i5-10310u @ 4.4Ghz (4c8t) // 16GB RAM // 512GB NVME SSD

 

[Chrispy_]

Specs of the system it's in
Dell Precision 3550: Intel i5-10310u @ 4.4Ghz (4c8t) // 16GB RAM // 512GB NVME SSD

Yeah, whether your SSD has DRAM or not really isn't the performance bottleneck in that system. There's nothing wrong with ULV Comet Lake, but it's a low power CPU and it's a single-drive system.

That means that the only data being written to your SSD is either coming from Wi-Fi/Ethernet at less than 1/10th the speed it can write at, or it's data being compressed/decompressed by that 15W U-series CPU and unlikely to ever max out the SSD.

It's a perfect example of why not every system needs a bleeding-edge SSD. Most SSDs are fine for most use cases. Unless you are a heavy storage user (ML, Data Analytics, Simulation, 4K/8K video editor) then you can kind of ignore what SSD your computer has, as long as it's still an SSD and not spinning rust. You could put a 12-year-old SATA SSD in a top-of-the-range gaming PC and while you could measure the reduction in performance compared to a high-end SSD, you probably wouldn't care. Things that take 20 seconds with the fancy SSD probably take 25 seconds with the ancient SATA drive but those extra five seconds every now and again aren't going to ruin your day.

 

[remixedcat]

Yeah, whether your SSD has DRAM or not really isn't the performance bottleneck in that system. There's nothing wrong with ULV Comet Lake, but it's a low power CPU and it's a single-drive system.

That means that the only data being written to your SSD is either coming from Wi-Fi/Ethernet at less than 1/10th the speed it can write at, or it's data being compressed/decompressed by that 15W U-series CPU and unlikely to ever max out the SSD.

It's a perfect example of why not every system needs a bleeding-edge SSD. Most SSDs are fine for most use cases. Unless you are a heavy storage user (ML, Data Analytics, Simulation, 4K/8K video editor) then you can kind of ignore what SSD your computer has, as long as it's still an SSD and not spinning rust. You could put a 12-year-old SATA SSD in a top-of-the-range gaming PC and while you could measure the reduction in performance compared to a high-end SSD, you probably wouldn't care. Things that take 20 seconds with the fancy SSD probably take 25 seconds with the ancient SATA drive but those extra five seconds every now and again aren't going to ruin your day.

Is fast enough for music production so..

 

[[XC] Oj101]

Seems like the 2 TB version vill cost around US$312 in Vietnamn. The same shop charges as much for Gigabyte's 2 TB Aorus Gen5 14000 drive.

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Ổ cứng SSD GIGABYTE AI TOP 100E 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 3D NAND M.2 2280 (AI100E2TB)

Ổ cứng SSD GIGABYTE AI TOP 100E 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen 4.0 x4 3D NAND M.2 2280 (AI100E2TB)

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That's a placeholder price or mistake for sure. I have received SA's preliminary cost pricing, and it's around 15-20x the price of any other 2TB SSD.

People are sort of missing the point of this drive, and Gigabyte's RUBBISH marketing is largely to blame. This is supposed to be used for a large, fast pagefile for AI workloads. This is not for consumer use, and mostly not even for enterprise use.

 

[TheLostSwede]

That's a placeholder price or mistake for sure. I have received SA's preliminary cost pricing, and it's around 15-20x the price of any other 2TB SSD.

People are sort of missing the point of this drive, and Gigabyte's RUBBISH marketing is largely to blame. This is supposed to be used for a large, fast pagefile for AI workloads. This is not for consumer use, and mostly not even for enterprise use.

Fair enough, but I can only go on the information available.

 

[[XC] Oj101]

Fair enough, but I can only go on the information available.

No, that's perfectly fair. I just don't want people getting their hopes up that it's going to priced the same as any other 2TB drive

 

[remixedcat]

I suspect not. The SN520 is a very low-performance Gen3x2 SSD that is better than a SATA drive but not by much. Either way, it's normally used in small spaces and is probably a M.2 2242 size that's physically too small to have room for a DRAM chip anyway. It's also so old that it predates HMB, so it's just a slow SSD, period. That probably doesn't matter too much though - even a SATA drive is fast enough that most consumer applications don't really benefit from anything faster. If you were running an i9 or Ryzen9 and doing heavy write-intensive workloads then sure, it'd feel like a turd - but for everyday booting, gaming, web-browsing it's likely to be plenty fast enough.

The BC901 is another low-end drive that's DRAMless for sure, but at least it's Gen4x4 and supports HMB so the lack of DRAM isn't a big deal.

Confirmed it's DRAM-less by WD themselves since I asked them

and it's apperantly a DELL OEM drive too..