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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 28 2017, @12:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the undressing dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:27AM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:27AM (#472660)

    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....

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Popeidol on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:16PM (1 child)

    by Popeidol (35) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:16PM (#472831) Journal

    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

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:30PM (#472840)

      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.

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