Everspin Non-Volatile MRAM 500 Times Faster Than NAND

[Sionyn]

Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory

'The hypothetical holy grail — a non-volatile, low-latency, low-cost product that could scale from hard drives to conventional RAM.
NAND flash has become the high-speed, non-volatile darling of the storage industry, but if you follow the evolution of the standard, you'll know that NAND is far from perfect. The total number of read/write cycles and data duration if the drive isn't kept powered are both significant problems as process shrinks continue scaling downward'

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/140318-everspin-launches-new-non-volatile-magnetic-ram-thats-500-times-faster-than-nand-flash

[FenderBender]

Just when I decide to buy an SSD...

[tom66]

1,000,000+ cycles per bit plus wear levelling can increase this by 10-20%.
30-40 years data retention

I'm not seeing massive problem, and while MRAM looks neat, I could only see a need for a 2-3x increase. Modern chipsets and standards like SATA aren't fast enough for anything more.