More on the Crucial E100: A Real SSD Roll Bag Like the Kingston NV3 29 comments
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Crucial introduced the SSD E100 series quietly and quietly. The editorial team first had to find out what technology is behind it. After a long wait, there is now a response to used memory. Accordingly, TLC and QLC memory can be installed. There are other parallels with the Kingston NV3.
What has happened so far
Coincidentally, editors on January 20 stumbled upon listings for the Crucial E100 M.2 SSD series in price comparison. Two models, one with 480 GB and one with a storage volume of 1 TB, are currently offered at prices of 35 euros and 54 euros. The confirmed 2 TB version is not yet available there. Models with 1TB and 2TB should read the promised maximum output of 5,000MB/s when reading sequentially and 4,500MB/s when writing sequentially. However, the datasheet did not provide any technical details and there was no press release, as usual for market launch.
Requested from manufacturer
Techtip had requested more information from the press service responsible for Crucial and asked questions about the controller and the storage type. A week ago, the editors received the answer that the controller was the budget 4-channel controller SM2268XT2 from Silicon Motion, which has two cores, but has to do without its own DRAM cache.
The type of storage is variable
Only today is there an official answer to the type of storage tracked, which in the original English is:
The E100 heralds a set of performance, endurance and reliability expectations that Crucial is committed to delivering. We may use different NAND technologies to meet these expectations over time based on the availability and cost of NAND, which will allow us to continue to achieve the goal with this SSD to provide an affordable and reliable SSD. As such, we plan to ship the E100 with TLC and QLC over time, but the SSD will continue to offer the same advertised performance, endurance, and reliability as advertised for the SSD.
Crucial
As a result, Crucial is not determining, but remains open to using TLC and QLC memory in the series. The latter is less durable and slower, therefore less popular. Regardless of this, the SSD must still achieve the promised performance values. This also applies to durability, which is indirectly shown by bytes fully written (TBW). However, the TBW values are extremely low even for SSDs with QLC memory, which should not be retained at this stage.
TBW-Verleich Einiger NVMe-SSDS MIT QLC-SPECHER MODELL 5XX GB 1 TB 2 TB 4 TB CRUMIAL E100 (QLC / TLC) 60 TB 80 TB 100 TB – Kingston NV3 (QLC / TLC) 160 TB 320 TB 640 TB 1.280 TB Crucial P310 (QLC) 110 TB 220 TB 440 TB – WD Blue SN5000 (TLC / QLC) 300 TB (TLC) 600 TB (TLC) 900 TB (TLC) 1,200 TB (QLC) 640 TB 1,280 TB Crucial P3 (QLC) 110 TB 220 TB 440 TB 800 TB CRUMIAL P3 Plus (QLC) 110 TB 220 TB 440 TB 800 TB CORSAIR MP600 CORE (QLC) – 225 TB 450 TB 900 TB Intel / soligm 670p (QLC (QLC ) 185 TB 370 TB 740 TB –
A surprise bag almost like the Kingston NV3
The crucial E100’s controller can also be found on the Kingston NV3, which in turn offers mid-class PCIe 4.0 performance at a low price. And the storage type is also not fixed for the Kingston NV3. There are therefore variants with TLC and QLC memory. Kingston doesn’t even make the controller, because according to TechPowerUp’s SSD database, four variants with three different controllers are now in circulation.
Such a “miracle bag” was already the Kingston NV2 (test), which at least knew how to like the version tested by Techoutil.
However, the Kingston NV3 establishes one plus point: the TBW is significantly higher than with the crucial E100 (see table above).
Topics: Critical Flash Memory Kingston M.2 NVME PCIe 4.0 SSD Storage
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