Crucial MX100 (256GB & 512GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on June 2, 2014 3:00 PM ESTPower Consumption
Like the M500 and M550, the MX100 supports DevSLP and slumber power states. Unfortunately we still don't have a way to measure DevSLP power but we do have slumber power results to report. Slumber power is actually up quite significantly, although the power consumption is still relatively low. Power consumption under load is, on the other hand, slightly down for the 512GB model whereas the 256GB MX100 consumes 0.1-0.4W more than its M550 counterpart.
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extide - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Wow, 256Gbit dies! That would mean up to 2TB in a standard 2.5" SSD -- Crazy!hojnikb - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Actually one could fit 4TB into a standard 2.5" (or even 8GB when using 32 packages) but the problem is, as far as i can tell, no single controller can adress so much space.hojnikb - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
*TB obviously :)extide - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Yeah but it's a chicken and egg thing I think. There seems to be a max price cap of about $600 for these SSD's, and so for 64gbit NAND that was ~512GB and 128Gbit NAND it is about 1TB. When they design a controller to exist during the lifetime of 256Gbit NAND there is a good chance that someone is actually going to make a 2TB drive because that much NAND would then fit inside that 'max price' so they will design the controller for that max amount. And in the same vein a contrller for the 128Gbit era would be 'OK' with a 1TB max.... if that makes sense, heh.hojnikb - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Also, there is already 2TBs drives out thre on the old 64Gbit flash :)danwat1234 - Monday, January 26, 2015 - link
Intel S3500 2TB exists, not sure if it works in laptops thoughfruitcrash - Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - link
It's not that you can't address it (for ONFI NAND you can use the Volume Select command), but that you can't have more than about 8 chips on a channel because of capacitive loading.extide - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
NOTE: I am talking about the future NAND, NOT what is used in this drive.hojnikb - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Still, 256Gbit dies can can't help you much, if controller can't adress that much space. As i've said above, once could fit 4-8TB of flash, it's just isn't possible yet.hojnikb - Monday, June 2, 2014 - link
Any details on the 128GB version ?I've read somewhere, that it will be using the old 20nm flash...