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SanDisk Announces 4TB SSD, Plans For 8TB Next Year
Lucas123 (935744) writes "SanDisk has announced what it's calling the world's highest capacity 2.5-in SAS SSD, the 4TB Optimus MAX line. The flash drive uses eMLC (enterprise multi-level cell) NAND built with 19nm process technology. The company said it plans on doubling the capacity of its SAS SSDs every one to two years and expects to release an 8TB model next year, dwarfing anything hard disk drives can ever offer over the same amount of time. he Optimus MAX SAS SSD is capable of up to 400 MBps sequential reads and writes and up to 75,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS) for both reads and writes, the company said."
Oh my. This was supposed to be posted to the previous story. MOD ME INTO OBLIVION!
Exactly - these drives are almost read-only drives, you can write to them a few thousand times, but you should avoid writing to them at all cost, consider them kinda like CD-R's. As they are chip based, and come with built-in wifi, anything you write to them inside a city or anywhere there is wifi present, will be sent through the subliminal wifi network to the powers that be. The only secure way to write to these is in the middle of the desert with nobody around for 100's of miles (but you still got the satellites watching you) or in a deep underground cavern or mine where all electromagnetic (including satellite) waves are blocked out (it's not safe to masturbate in the desert because you can be caught on satellite camera and be posted all over the internet, a mineshaft or deep underwater in a submarine is a lot safer place to do it). You have to be careful with the timestamps though, and stick to something like year 2005 in your computer bios, as there might be a zero day code built into the chip that erases everything in, say, year 2050, then self destructs. Even if you watch your timestamps, the device may have its own clock regardless, and know when 2050 is here even if you don't tell it. The way to deal with that is to "starve" the device of any residual capacitive storage to run a clock from, say freezing it for 20-40 years, at which point its own internal clock should give out due to lack of capacitive battery power and stop counting the progress of time, and when 2050 hits, some of these devices will self destruct, but the deep frozen ones will be behind on their internal clock, and the data can be rescued from them before they self-destruct too. The only secure longterm storage mediums are non-chip based, such as magnetic (floppies, tape) or optical (cd-rw(cr-r ink decays over time or bacteria can chew it up, CDRW is a molten semimetal glass (fuckin telluride, telluride is only found where gold is found, or with high probability only there, and it's super rare, or super dispersed in the environment, hard to extract and get your hands on it), that's only temperature sensitive, but not good food like ink is good food), dvd, etc.) As long as they can't create logic inside magnetic materials, such as magnetic transistors, etc, the data can be kept separated from the logic that acts on it, and there is never a danger of self activating zero day self destruct behavior. By the way floppies have the head rubbing against the disk, and only teflon based floppies should be used. Harddrives have a tiny air-cushion, bernoulli-effect-like, so there is no contact, they are also dust-free, unfortunately they are chip-based, and because of that are not secure. Ideally they should make "removable disk" harddrives, where you can remove the spindle and exchange it between drives, like you can floppies, however the powers that be might want to retain that only for themselves or their military, and the general public only get SSD's, chipped harddrives, chipped flash drives, or floppies and cdrw's. Out of all CDRW's are the best option for Jefferson's yeomans, and not DVD-RW's, as the biggest issue with CD's is head alignment. I used to work at an electronics repair shop as a front desk attendant, and the standard chime I uttered every time someone tried to bring in a CD-player for repair was: "The laser assembly is out of alignment - it costs $80 for a new laser assembly, and you only paid $40 for the CD-player, (or fill in the value, 39, or 44, how much was it? 52? you got ripped off, circuit city sells them for 39 every holiday). So what you wanna do, buy another CD or DVD player, or you want us to look at it and repair it, and charge you the diagnosis fee too?" The laser assembly is always out of alignment, it's always out of friggin alignment, so that brings you back to floppies, the bigger and lower density the better, 80KB 8" being the best, least head alignment or magnetic material error sensitive. Floppies you may also be able to self-produce, and then their short lifetime is not an issue. Having 80KB storage is a whole who