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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.'"
Where is the pci-e based one?
If you can't afford the baskets, stop collecting the eggs.
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
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Why would a tech site such as slashdot ever, EVER, bother with metrics such as "number of photos" or "number of movies". We know how big a Terabyte is. We don't need it spelled out in such mundane, and ambigous terms such as "number of photos".
...winding-down whine.
Quite a feat, considering this is an SSD. Although, as an anecdote, I agree seagate hard drives with those spinning disks lost any reliability years ago.
You have to appreciate the thoroughness of the engineering, to incorporate the electronics necessary to simulate the sounds of mechanical failure in a solid-state, no-moving-parts storage system.
The only improvement would be including a pyro squib and a small smoke source for the complete effect.
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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).
Competing with hard drives is more than just matching their capacity. You have to come close to their $/TB too. The speed of SSDs make it attractive to replace HDDs for some data sets (boot drive, frequently accessed data, etc.). But if you are storing off-line data that is only accessed once a year, then even 2x the price is way too much. Flash has come down a lot, but it is still something like 8x the price of HDD space. Get back to us when a 1 TB SSD can be bought for $50.
I know...I could not help myself.
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The end of spindle drives is nigh
Perhaps if size and price was related like with HDDs... checking my local pricewatch the cheapest $/GB is a 480GB drive leading by a hair over similar 240GB and 960GB models. Above that 2TB/4TB models actually cost marginally more/GB, probably because of less volume. When you can put 1TB in an M.2 format it's obvious you can go a lot bigger with 2.5" or 3.5" disks. Heck, make a 5.25" SSD for the DVD player bay and you'd probably be approaching the petabyte but it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars too.
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The cheapest SSDs these days are ~$0.30/GB. This is an enterprise SSD though so we're usually looking at ~$1-2/GB or $4-10/GB, I'm not sure what their statement implied as far as which 'price class' it belongs to. Either way we're looking at ~$15-30k for a drive if not more if they're matching current market prices. It's "reasonably" priced but you'd need at least two of these and even then the rebuild times on these puppies will be murder.
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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.