The world's largest SSD

[Executioner]

only for $10,000

That’s where the Samsung PM1633a SSD comes in, clocking in at a massive 15.56 terabytes (or 15,360,000,000,000 bytes) of storage. Such power comes at a price, however, with preorders for the 15.56 terabyte behemoth coming in at around $10,000. The 15.56 TB size is not only the largest SSD ever made, but the largest single hard drive ever, finally breaking the 10 TB barrier that spinning disk drives seem to be capped at.

"The 15.56 TB behemoth comes in at around $10,000"

The drive’s small size and huge storage capacity means that you’d be able to outfit a standard 42U server storage rack with 1,008 PM1633a for a cool 15482.88 TB (over 15 petabytes) of storage, to presumably store a spare copy of the known universe. (Assuming you can afford the $10,080,000 price tag for such a setup.)

But while the PM1633a is primarily designed for enterprise customers for use in data centers or large server systems, there’s theoretically nothing stopping you (aside from price, anyway) from just buying one for your home desktop. Good luck filling all that space!

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/ ... pecs-price

[FlyingPenguin]

WOW!

[Pugsley]

You know what. I am surprised that nobody has started building LARGE physical sized HDDs. Imagine if you built a Mechanical HD that was the size of a washing machine (like they used to be) using current HD tech. Obviously they would be for enterprise or farms.

[FlyingPenguin]

I think you'd run into physical limits on RPM and armature motion speeds which would affect access time.

[Pugsley]

Yeah I didn't say that they would be all that fast but the density of something that big could run at lower RPMs and each platter could have a set of heads in each corner of box to compensate for the lower RPMs. Also you could have each platter have its own set of heads that can seek individually of the next platter to increase speed more.