SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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.
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Wednesday July 08 2015, @03:39PM
Easily the latter as you are perfectly capable of refuting a claim without being an ass. Sorry bro, you're being an unnecessary asshole and trying to justify your attitude by blaming my supposedly incorrect statement doesn't change that. Learn some social skills. I hope you know how to behave in public as there are more penalties for that behavior in that realm than online.
I said patterns are bad. You said I was wrong. I provided a paper to show I'm right when I said patterns are bad. Encryption is one way to break up patterns and it has other benefits too. Compression is another method. There are others, one such was outlined in the paper I linked.
And who knows why companies don't show the feature. Maybe it's product and market segmentation (enterprise drives get it but consumer drives don't). Maybe some idiot somewhere in management or accounting decided not to add it to save a few bucks. Samsung disks got firmware updates adding edrive to many ssd 1-2 years ago. More companies are coming around to it. The feature exists but often isn't given to the user. The world isn't ideal. Get over it.