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HP Memristor SSDs by Summer 2013?

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Blackthorne TA, Oct 11, 2011.

  1. Blackthorne TA

    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    HPs is targeting its memristor technology as a flash memory replacement by Summer 2013 including SSDs.

    A spokesperson said it could end up being an order of magnitude lower in cost and meeting or exceeding flash performance in all categories. Apparently endurance data is being accumulated at 10^12 cycles (where flash is 10^5 to 10^6).
     
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    dmc Speak softly and carry a big briefcase Staff Member Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    And in English this means . . . ?
     
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    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Faster storage memory for cheaper. Your PC will be quicker.
     
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    Mesmero How'd an old elf get the blues?

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    If they start using it: cheaper smart phones (or more profits for the Apples and Samsungs of the world). And faster memory speed, but I would guess that isn't the limiting factor in phones.

    Edit: barmy beat me to it... Stupid slow phone :p
     
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    Ragusa Eternal Halfling Paladin Veteran

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    I want some of that.
     
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  6. Blackthorne TA

    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Memristors are a fourth type of passive electronic device (the other three being capacitors, inductors and resistors) that changes resistance based on amount and direction of current flowing through it. HP was the first to create a working device, and they can be used for various purposes including electronic nonvolatile memories (like flash memory).

    The first memory HP is targeting to compete against with this tech is flash memory, and according the the spokesperson it will be cheaper to manufacture, and have better performance i.e. read/write speeds, number of write cycles (endurance) etc. Flash memory is used in various places including Solid State Drives for PC and basically all the mobile tech.

    Since Solid State Drives (SSDs) are currently made with flash memory and flash has a fairly low write cycle endurance (somewhere between 100,000 and 1,000,000 program/erase cycles) the SSDs must have extra memory allocated to them and special write algorithms for "wear levelling" so that parts of the memory don't wear out faster than desired (i.e. faster than the design lifetime fo the drive). Replacing the flash memory in a SSD with this new memory should make a cheaper, faster SSD with apparently at least a million times more write cycle capability. SSDs are already much faster than the magnetic hard disk drives, but they cost a lot more as well.
     
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    Merlanni Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    Nice, isn't it.

    Hmmm Will the controller chip be the next bottleneck, or the new-ish SATA?

    I have Oblivion installed on the old ssd and it starts up pretty fast.
     
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