Samsung Ships 15.38TB SSD With Up To 1,200MBps Performance (computerworld.com)

Lucas123 writes: Samsung announced it is now shipping the world's highest capacity 2.5-in SSD, the 15.38TB PM1633a. The new SSD uses a 12Gbps SAS interface and is being marketed for use in enterprise-class storage systems where IT managers can fit twice as many of the drives in a standard 19-inch, 2U rack compared to an equivalent 3.5-inch drive. The PM1633a sports random read/write speeds of up to 200,000 and 32,000 IOPS, respectively. It delivers sequential read/write speeds of up to 1,200MBps, the company said. The SSD can sustain one full drive write (15.38TB) per day, every day over its life, which Samsung claims is two to ten times more data than typical SATA SSDs based on planar MLC and TLC NAND flash technologies. The SSD is based on Samsung's 48-layer V-NAND (3D NAND) technology, which also uses 3-bit MLC flash. Also at Hot Hardware

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We're all guilty of having overpowered machines from time to time (because when we need that horsepower, there's no alternative to having it local). In a somewhat related subject, I've got triple monitors that have beautiful color... I assume. They've all got green on transparent consoles on them at about 120 columns wide. It's enough to make a graphic designer cry.

That being said, my laptop is a special order ThinkPad (i7 w/ 8 threads@~3.2GHz, maxed out RAM, 1/2 TB SSD, etc) - I think I get maybe 90 minutes on a 12 cell extended battery and I have docking stations at home and work because all that power means it ain't really portable for most definitions of "portable" (or at least for very long). Also makes a great heater during the Minnesota winter. There's nothing wrong with wanting a powerful machine, so long as you accept the trade offs you're making to have that power.