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Toshiba Developing High-Density 1TB SSD

Posted by timothy on from the valentine's-day-is-over dept.

MojoKid writes "A new partnership between Toshiba and Tokyo's Keio University has led to the creation of a new technology that could allow SSDs up to 1TB in size to be made 'with a footprint no larger than a postage stamp.' The report states that the two have been able to integrate 128GB NAND Flash chips and a single controller into a stamp-sized form factor. They've even made it operational with a transfer rates of 2Gbps (or about 250MB/sec) with data transfer that relies on radio communication."

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  1. Re:End of the hard drive soon by izomiac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    7 years * 12 months/year * 10,000 GB/month = 840 TB of data written/deleted
    10,000 Erases * 128 GB = 1280 TB of data written/deleted

    It seems like any SSD of appropriate capacity will do that. 10,000 erases is actually extremely conservative, most SSDs advertise 2-3 orders of magnitude more than that. It'd take continuous writing at maximum speed for more than a decade* to kill most modern SSDs. Or at least that's the theory, I'm sure someone has gotten a defective one that died in a month or something.

    * 5,000,000 Erases * (256 GB / 100 MB/sec) = 405 years