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from the better-than-a-shoebox-of-microSD-cards dept.
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: 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.