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posted by n1 on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the always-more-data-to-store dept.

Big things can come in small packages. According to Computerworld, Samsung has released the world's first 2 TB consumer SSDs:

Samsung today announced what it is calling the first multi-terabyte consumer solid-state drive (SSD), which will offer 2TB of capacity in a 2.5-in. form factor for laptops and desktops.

[...] The 850 Pro is designed for power users and client PCs that may need higher performance with up to 550MBps sequential read and 520MBps sequential write rates and up to 100,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS). The 850 EVO SSD has slightly lower performance with 540MBps and 520MBps sequential read/write rates and up to 90,000 random IOPS.

The 2TB model of the 850 Pro will retail for $999.99 and the 850 EVO will sell for $799.99.

The 1TB EVO SSD will retail for $399; the 500GB for $179; the 250GB for $99 and the 120GB for $69. The 1TB 850 Pro will retail for $499; the 512GB model for $259; the 256GB model for $144.99 and the 128GB model for $99.

[...] Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 Pro for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW.

To put that in perspective, there are approximately 7 billion people on earth. One of these drives has sufficient space to keep about 285 bytes of information on every single person on the planet! Put another way, that is over 6 KB for every single person in the USA.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:06AM

    by isostatic (365) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @10:06AM (#206048) Journal

    GB? TB? How unrelateable is that. How many MegaLOCs can a double decker bus carry?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday July 07 2015, @12:57PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @12:57PM (#206094) Journal

    Big enough to contain the contents of all the double-spaced typed pages it would take to equal the volume of New York's famed World Trade Center Twin Towers, or single-spaced, one of the famed World Trade Center Twin Towers.

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    • (Score: 2) by slash2phar on Tuesday July 07 2015, @02:29PM

      by slash2phar (623) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @02:29PM (#206121)
      Or approximately 143 WashingMachine-FootballFields
      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday July 07 2015, @03:58PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @03:58PM (#206150)

        > WashingMachine-FootballFields

        You meant Quarterback-FootballFields I'm sure.
        Using WashingMachine-FootballFields would be as absurd as feet-acres.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @03:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2015, @03:47PM (#206148)

    African or European LOCs?

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by isj on Tuesday July 07 2015, @06:37PM

    by isj (5249) on Tuesday July 07 2015, @06:37PM (#206189) Homepage

    I agree. I cannot get my heard around GB and TB.

    Could the original submitter please convert the numbers into libraries-of-congress printed on coasters and tell me how many pints that would support? Or transmitted using 8mbps (8 milli-bits per second) and tell me how many fortnights that would be?