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A company founded in 2013 has announced its first SSD product, and it has a capacity of up to 24 TB:
NGD Systems this week announced its first SSD that also happens to be one of the highest capacity drives in the industry. The NGD Catalina uses a proprietary controller as well as up to 24 TB of Micron's 3D TLC NAND memory and apart from capacity, its key feature is a relatively low power consumption.
Before we jump to the Catalina SSD, it makes sense to talk about NGD Systems (formerly known as NxGn Data) itself. The company was founded in June 2013 by a group of people who previously developed SSDs at companies like Western Digital, STEC and Memtech, with the corporate aim to develop drives for enterprise and hyperscale applications. Back in 2014, the company disclosed that its primary areas of interest were LDPC, advanced signal processing, software-defined media channel architecture and in-storage computation capability. NGD has been developing various proprietary technologies behind the Catalina since its inception and the SSD is a culmination of their work.
The NGD Catalina is a large add-in-card with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface that also supports a Mezzanine connector. Rather than have the NAND on the main card, instead the card uses multiple M.2 modules with Micron's 3D TLC NAND. The 24 TB version of Catalina carries 12 [such] modules, whereas lower capacity SKUs will use [fewer] modules. According to NGD, the Catalina consumes only 0.65 W of power per Terabyte (which means ~15.6 W for the 24 TB SSD), but the card still has a 4-pin auxiliary power connector.
Keeping in mind that the SSD has a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface, the peak read/write performance of the drive is limited to 3.9 GB/s. Meanwhile, NGD does not disclose official performance or endurance numbers for the Catalina SSD, but only says that the drive is optimized for read-intensive applications.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 28 2017, @01:28AM (9 children)
At my usual MP3 compression level, about 1MB/min, that's over 45 years ... I'm not sure whether I'll have enough hearing left towards the end.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 28 2017, @01:31AM (5 children)
Treat yourself to FLAC before The End.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 28 2017, @01:35AM (4 children)
Most modern "music" ain't worth FLAC to start with. Most of my listening conditions (office ambient noise, $5 earbuds, or cheap speakers) ain't worth FLAC...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 28 2017, @02:25AM (2 children)
1. Start a business
2. Get yourself a nice secluded office
3. Hire an assistant to look for good headphones on your behalf (and cables, don't forget the cables!)
4. ...
5. Profit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 28 2017, @02:31AM (1 child)
Since #4 is "Bang the pretty assistant, get sued into bankruptcy", that means I'm not the one pocketing the profit from #5.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 28 2017, @02:52AM
Perhaps the choice of assistant is what causes the predicted downfall.
(grin - leaves the scene, quietly whistling Jimmy Soul's "If you wanna be happy"... in FLAC format of course)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday February 28 2017, @03:34AM
Get a 3TB or larger hard drive. Rip your stuff to flac. When you want to move it use something like flacSqusher to make MP3s out of it.
Some 15-20 years ago when I first digitized my CD collection I used ogg. Then found out portable media players didn't support ogg. So I went MP3. Turned out 190kbps was good enough for my needs. Then huge ass drives came out and I realized I could store my CDs as FLAC. But I'd already encoded them as MP3, so I sorta went the pirate bay route and just downloaded the FLACs as needed.
oops
/ bet I have more CDs than you do
// over 2,000 last count
/// Maybe 10% of them are digitized, rest are in boxes in the closet.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:27AM (2 children)
The sad thing: my company has ~100K employees, they probably have 10,000 hours worth of meetings per day, so we could fill up your 24TB drive with audio recordings of our meetings in about 40 days.
Picture spending the rest of your natural life listening to 40 days worth of meetings from a single company....
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Popeidol on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:16PM (1 child)
This is always an almost irresistible topic, when you're looking at things like 'how much would it take to record every call my company makes' or 'what would it take to record everything I say in my lifetime'.
As a rule, meeting recordings are human voice and can be compressed substantially beyond MP3 levels while being acceptable. MP3 at decent quality usually isn't below 1MB/min, but decent voice-only codecs can be under 10MB/hour, a factor of about 6. Assuming 1 track recording, the 24TB drive could last you 2/3 of a year rather than a month and a bit.
In terms of your lifetime - assuming the 10MB/h average for speech only - you could fit every second of your life from your first gurgle to your last gasp in a commercially-available 8TB drive with room to spare.
(apologies for the derailing, it just comes to mind whenever I evaluate a phone system)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:30PM
There are some confounding factors, like: is everybody speaking clearly into a telephone, or are we dealing with people mumbling in corners of the room picked up by a too-far away microphone. My favorite (derailing further) audio recording trick is the one where you place a large number (~100) of microphones in a large arena like a basketball game, record all the tracks in high fidelity, then mix the resulting recording to focus in on specific conversations in specific seats in the arena. It works shockingly well - 10,000 people having 2,000 to 3,000 separate conversations, and a microphone bank in the center of the arena can focus on any of them with a datastream that's no bigger than a good quality 60fps 4K video recording.
🌻🌻 [google.com]