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Seagate Demonstrates a 60 TB 3.5" SSD

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-a-shoebox-of-microSD-cards dept.

takyon writes:

Seagate has put a new lower limit on the maximum amount of NAND flash that can be crammed into a 3.5" enclosure, by demonstrating a 60 TB solid state drive:

With the Nytro XP7200 moving toward production, Seagate has brought out another SSD tech demo with eye-catching specifications. The unnamed SAS SSD packs 60TB of 3D TLC into a 3.5" drive. In order to connect over a thousand dies of Micron's 3D TLC NAND to a single SSD controller, Seagate has introduced ONFi bridge chips to multiplex the controller's NAND channels across far more dies than would otherwise be possible. The rest of the specs for the 60TB SSD look fairly mundane and make for a drive that's better suited to read-intensive workloads, but the capacity puts even the latest hard drives to shame.

The 60TB SSD is currently just a technology demonstration, and won't be appearing as a product until next year. When it does, it will probably have a very tiny market, but for now it will give Seagate some bragging rights.

Previously: Seagate Unveils Fastest Ever Solid State Drive

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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:43PM

    by mendax (2840) on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:43PM (#386007)

    it will probably have a very tiny market, but for now it will give Seagate some bragging rights.

    Tiny market perhaps, but given the amount of storage that is being sucked up by cloud computing providers, the speed of SSD, and the alleged greater reliability over the spinning rust variety of storage, I suspect that market will quickly get larger fast.

    As for myself, I wouldn't mind Seagate donating one to a good cause: me. I could rip my Blu-ray disks and actually have room for them, instead of ripping only my DVDs. I'm needy and it's a good cause.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:57PM (#386040)

    Tiny market, yes. I just want 2. Raid-1 setup for safety.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:59PM (#386042)

    > I could rip my Blu-ray disks and actually have room for them,

    Back them up to usenet, its unlimited free storage, with multiple, independent, redundant copies.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:17AM (#386071)

    I do the same. I am around 30TB and ~3k in disks ~200 or so with bluray.