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Seagate Reveals 'World's Largest' 60TB SSD (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: While Samsung has the world's largest commercially available SSD coming in at 15.36TB, Seagate officially has the world's largest SSD for the enterprise. ZDNet reports: "[While Samsung's PM1633a has a 2.5-inch form factor,] Seagate's 60TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD on the other hand opts for the familiar HDD 3.5-inch form factor. The company says that its drive has "twice the density and four times the capacity" of Samsung's PM1633a, and is capable of holding up to 400 million photos or 12,000 movies. Seagate thinks the 3.5-inch form factor will be useful for managing changing storage requirements in data centers since it removes the need to support separate form factors for hot and cold data. The company says it could also scale up capacity to 100TB in the same form factor. Seagate says the 60TB SSD is currently only a 'demonstration technology' though it could release the product commercially as early as next year. It hasn't revealed the price of the unit but says it will offer 'the lowest cost per gigabyte for flash available today.'"
That didn't take long. Toshiba announced a 100TB drive (different type) SSD today.
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The end of spindle drives is nigh
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Is it, really?
I mean, 100TB of spinning rust storage is probably around $3000 or so. 60TB is probably around $2000-ish.
If Seagate and Toshiba are selling SSDs for those prices, then yes, spindle's are dead. But if we're talking about 5 figures or more, then spinning rust has a long life ahead of it.
SSDs are great for plenty of tasks, and the largest ones on the market offer plenty of storage for most users.
However, there are plenty of tasks that demand bulk storage (e.g., media storage, backups, etc) over sheer IOPs or throughput, and demand cheap bulk storage, at that. Spinning rust fulfills that need wonderfully (and there's plenty of demand for it, as well - I'm sure most people have at least a need to have some big bulk storage around to store their media).
That is what happens when you run faulty firmware and has nothing to do with flash technology.
Buying OCZ is more closely comparable to running the testing version of a filesystem.