Friday, December 2nd 2022
Unigen Announces the Oncilla M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD
Unigen Corporation has introduced the Oncilla PCIe Gen 4.0 M.2 2280 SSD. The high-performance solution pairs the latest advanced PCIe Gen 4.0 SSD controller with high endurance eTLC NAND Flash to deliver the fastest M.2 2280 to the performance market. Capable of 7400 MB/s Sequential Read performance, the Oncilla is perfect for workstation media applications where transferring large video files must be as fast as possible to process large datasets during VFX (Visual Effects) and post processing operations for Hollywood. The ability to perform at the highest level is also required for high performance OS boot and application drives in data centers and mission critical network appliances. For these applications optional features such as industrial temperatures and higher endurance NAND are available upon request.
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6 Comments on Unigen Announces the Oncilla M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD
And NO, this drive is not any faster than other top-tier m.2's, of which there are many out there already that run at this speed, so this claim is bogus/dubious at best :D
Gen 4 is sooooo 2019-ish, bring on dem Gen 12.674 drives already, hehehe :)
But I agree, this announcement is dog shit if they're not going to mention the endurance it has.
It's like Bugatti announcing their new "fastest road car we've ever made" and then not mentioning how fast it will go.
enterprise grade nand is made (binned?) and validated to withstand long hours of consistent performance, instead of those really high short term bursts of max speeds a consumer craves. the important thing here is validation. it might even be the exact same nand consumers use, but hey what do we know. Business and industries want consistent and predictable performance as well as mtbf for predictable downtime. Not to mention its need to perform according to spec regardless whether it is empty or full and how old it is as long as it is within the specced mtbf.
eTLC is just a continuation of eMLC. And as usual, enterprise stuff has a lack of or hard to find online sources or documents. Why don't one of you buy a tray of them and find out what the manual in the box say instead of running your mouths off without doing some simple research.
thessdguy.com/mlc-vs-emlc-whats-the-difference/
nascompares.com/2021/04/06/understanding-ssd-nand-chips-slc-vs-mlc-vs-tlc-vs-qlc/#What_is_eMLC_NAND_Flash_and_Which_SSD_use_it
www.realhardwarereviews.com/seagate-nytro-3332-review/4/
All of those articles are horribly out of date, there's no official standard for eTLC that I know of, and the press release specifically calls it Endurance TLC NAND.
I assure you - as someone who buys tens of thousands of dollars of enterprise-grade flash storage per quarter for multiple offices and datacenters - that it's not how enterprise NAND is usually labelled. just one of my locations currently has over 200TB of enterprise-grade flash in both all-flash and hybrid SAN/NAS appliacnes from Nexsan, HPE, Dell, and a few home-brew or iXS TrueNAS boxes. I've been doing this for as long as those outdated documents you linked talking about OCZ SSDs, and I've yet to hear any of the mainline enterprise vendors refer to it as eMLC or eTLC.
The closest relation to the lowercase 'e' in front of a flash grade still in use today is eMMC where the 'e' stands for embedded, which doesn't seem to make sense in the case of these Unigen M.2 drives.