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6 Terabyte 2.5" SSD Coming in July

posted by martyb on Sunday May 10 2015, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-first-hard-disk-had-40-MB dept.

takyon writes:

Japanese manufacturer Fixstars is releasing a 6 terabyte 2.5" solid state drive in July. The drive uses 15nm MLC NAND. 1 TB and 3 TB models are also available, but only the pricing for the 1 TB model is known: $820. The drive is not particularly fast; it uses the 6 Gbps SATA 3 interface to achieve 540 and 520 MB/s sustained read and write speeds.

For comparison, the highest capacity 2.5" hard disk drive is currently Toshiba's 3 terabyte MQ03ABB300, which uses four 750 GB platters. The Fixstars SSD is 9.5 mm thick, while the Toshiba HDD is 15 mm thick.

It's about time to bring the HAMR down.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:03AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:03AM (#181051) Homepage Journal

    ... that I had landed a job that left me with enough cash, that I was able to purchase a full-height, 5 1/4" inch Fujitsu SCSI drive, used, off of the USENET news.

    135 megabytes.

    Seven Hundred Dollars.

    Kids.
    These.
    Days.

    HOWEVER!

    That drive still works, and to this very day is in regular use. It belongs to a friend now; he uses it to play ancient Mac OS games.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:35AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:35AM (#181057) Journal

    And the ATA interface were an electrical and a protocol design horror.. ;)

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:41AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:41AM (#181062) Homepage Journal

      the cable connector was unkeyed. The only way to tell that you plugged it in upside down, was that you couldn't read the drive. I actually did that once.

      The classic mac os required that one write a "scsi driver" to the initial sector of each drive. It was a little bit of 68k machine code that, in my understanding, adjusted for the timing characteristics of that individual drive.

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      • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Sunday May 10 2015, @12:17PM

        by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday May 10 2015, @12:17PM (#181071)

        The cable had a red border down one side and if you looked carefully (and didn't have a drive made by a crappy manufacturer), there was usually a tiny notch on one side of the connector on the drive or a white dot painted onto the board where the connector was soldered on- that's where you put the "red" side of the ribbon cable... Sheesh you guys, it's a wonder we made it to this era of enlightenment at all if you never even noticed these things :)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @01:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @01:16PM (#181453)

    5 1/4" inch

    5 1/4 square inch?