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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: 1) by nitehawk214 on Sunday May 10 2015, @06:23PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Sunday May 10 2015, @06:23PM (#181125)

    There were PCI-e based SSD drives, but from what I heard these were not terribly reliable. But really I don't think SATA is the problem here. I believe the current SATA spec is still faster than the fastest SSD drives.

    USB certainly isn't the solution. It is no where near reliable enough for permanent storage on a computer.

    RAM sockets are not really it either. The way the computer interacts with RAM is much more different than permanent storage.

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