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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."
It's all about loads. Read the article, these are designed for 90% read-heavy, and very little writing. These are not designed for "using" computers just cold storage.
eg, I'm going to make a hot-backup of my 4TB RAID array every day for the next 3 years, that should burn out the drive after a theoretical 30 years.
But no, this is not designed for web servers unless it's being used as a storage drive, not an operating system/swap/logging/tmp drive. The problem is that CMS systems need to do a lot of static caching which means extremely-busy sites will blow through the write performance like wet tissue paper and eventually kill the drive after 3 years.
Let me guess ... you bought OCZ drives because they were cheap, and even though they kept failing, you kept buying more OCZ drives, and they failed too?
It's a common story. What I don't understand is, why *anyone* buys an OCZ drive after the first one fails.
For a recent example, linode.com, my data center host for like 10 years now, just switched over to all SSDs in all of their systems.
Figures. They only host Linux servers, so it's not like they care about reliability or economy. Anyone who's serious about enterprise-quality hosting is using Windows Server.
APK, is that you?