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Today, (or yesterday for some) Samsung announced a new Solid State Drive that basically obliterates their competition in any type of storage media.
While Western Digital, Intel, Kingston etc, are currently trying to match Samsung's recently released 2TB consumer Solid State drives (also having a 4TB SSD on the way), they completely pulled the roadmap out from their competitors by not only announcing a 4TB nor a 6TB, not even an 8TB Solid State drive... but instead skipping up to a 16TB SSD. That is nearly DOUBLE the size of the current record holder (which uses the newer helium filled shingle technology) 10TB hard drives.
While they haven't stated a price, they have already showed off a server that 48 of these new drives (Totaling a massive 768 Terabytes) which can perform tasks at 2,000,000 IOPS (input outputs per second) compared to the 10,000-90,000 IOPS of a standard consumer SSD.
What's even crazier is, by using their 3dNAND technology, they have also managed to fit this in a standard 2.5" drive (laptop size).
Granted, these are enterprise drives, but coming from someone who grew up as this kind of stuff has progressed, it's incredible knowing where these things started and how fast it has improved.
What you guys think?
While Western Digital, Intel, Kingston etc, are currently trying to match Samsung's recently released 2TB consumer Solid State drives (also having a 4TB SSD on the way), they completely pulled the roadmap out from their competitors by not only announcing a 4TB nor a 6TB, not even an 8TB Solid State drive... but instead skipping up to a 16TB SSD. That is nearly DOUBLE the size of the current record holder (which uses the newer helium filled shingle technology) 10TB hard drives.
While they haven't stated a price, they have already showed off a server that 48 of these new drives (Totaling a massive 768 Terabytes) which can perform tasks at 2,000,000 IOPS (input outputs per second) compared to the 10,000-90,000 IOPS of a standard consumer SSD.
What's even crazier is, by using their 3dNAND technology, they have also managed to fit this in a standard 2.5" drive (laptop size).
Granted, these are enterprise drives, but coming from someone who grew up as this kind of stuff has progressed, it's incredible knowing where these things started and how fast it has improved.
What you guys think?