Re: Endurance != Reliability?
That's my point...
Increasing speed is pointless.
Increasing durability is pointless.
We need them to do no more than produce a standard, small module, in massive quantities, and bring the price down. They can sell that module singly in a small drive, or thousands together in a humungous one. But until the cost per module comes down, they aren't practical and wasting money on FASTER controllers/chips isn't helping.
I'd be more than happy with whatever chip is in that several-year-old SSD, multiplied up to fill the box, and sold at a decent price. A 1TB Samsung cost me £300 several years ago. By the same token, a 15Tb one should cost £4500 max. In actual fact, it costs £7000 ($10k).
If they can't get the modularity, mass production, and scale correct, we are never going to get affordable SSDs. And I'd be happy for them to abandon HDD production to do so.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
