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
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:12PM
Useless meme. Oooooh, Seagate made some shitty hard drives, that means their NAND SSDs are bad! Show us some data.
The NAND comes from Micron anyway. [seagate.com]
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Dunbal on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:30PM
Yeah that's what happens when you lose your reputation. I'll wait for some other sucker to take the risk in collecting the data.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday August 12 2016, @12:53AM
At least it's not Western Digital...they're currently showing about twice the failure rate of Seagate. Seagate had a couple crappy years but they're not doing too bad lately:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3071180/storage/who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-latest-backblaze-survey-claims-to-know.html [pcworld.com]
Western Digital is the only brand of hard drive I will no longer purchase under any circumstances. They *always* fail...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:31AM
I and several friends have 2-3 decades each of using and supporting computers. Guess which hard drive brand has been consistently crappier than the rest for all of us over those many years and continues to be today. Three guesses, first two don't count.
Micron may know memory, but Seagate has a long-earned reputation when it comes to storage. Let someone else be their guinea pig with this.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:45PM
Their biggest customer for this will be NSA. All things considered this may be a "good" thing.