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The 1 Terabyte SSD Arrives

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-should-be-enough dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over recent years Solid State Drives (SSDs) have moved from luxury to affordable additions to one's PC, but mechanical hard drives are still king when it comes to capacity. That was until the revamped Colossus LT series Solid State Drive came along this week. With up to 1TB, the drive offers offers massive storage capacities of the level normally not seen in SSDs. While 1TB of SSD space hits right at the heart of the traditional hard disk market, it comes at a high price — at around $4,000 for the 1TB model, these drives are in the realm of aspirational rather than practical."

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  1. Re:That's a lot of money..... by vlm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You don't need a solid state drive for storing media. It's completely useless.

    If you say so...

    Mostly in places where you have a lot of reads all over the disk in a very short amount of time.

    Yeah, like my video server trying to feed multiple HD streams at the same time. Zero seek time sure would be nice. Good thing video is not media, because then it would be useless.

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  2. Re:Welcome back to the 90s by quantumplacet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Compare how fast 3.5" capacity went from 1G->500G to how relatively slowly its inched from 500G->2000G.

    First 1GB hard drive came out around 1994 or 1995. It took 10 years until the first 500GB HD came out in 2005. Then the first 2TB drive came out in 2009, 4 years later. So basically, what the hell are you talking about?