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Seagate has put a new lower limit on the maximum amount of NAND flash that can be crammed into a 3.5" enclosure, by demonstrating a 60 TB solid state drive:
With the Nytro XP7200 moving toward production, Seagate has brought out another SSD tech demo with eye-catching specifications. The unnamed SAS SSD packs 60TB of 3D TLC into a 3.5" drive. In order to connect over a thousand dies of Micron's 3D TLC NAND to a single SSD controller, Seagate has introduced ONFi bridge chips to multiplex the controller's NAND channels across far more dies than would otherwise be possible. The rest of the specs for the 60TB SSD look fairly mundane and make for a drive that's better suited to read-intensive workloads, but the capacity puts even the latest hard drives to shame.
The 60TB SSD is currently just a technology demonstration, and won't be appearing as a product until next year. When it does, it will probably have a very tiny market, but for now it will give Seagate some bragging rights.
Previously: Seagate Unveils Fastest Ever Solid State Drive
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:32PM
I will not hire aussies. Try your luck in Canada or something, thieving bastards.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:43PM
Tiny market perhaps, but given the amount of storage that is being sucked up by cloud computing providers, the speed of SSD, and the alleged greater reliability over the spinning rust variety of storage, I suspect that market will quickly get larger fast.
As for myself, I wouldn't mind Seagate donating one to a good cause: me. I could rip my Blu-ray disks and actually have room for them, instead of ripping only my DVDs. I'm needy and it's a good cause.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:57PM
Tiny market, yes. I just want 2. Raid-1 setup for safety.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:59PM
> I could rip my Blu-ray disks and actually have room for them,
Back them up to usenet, its unlimited free storage, with multiple, independent, redundant copies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:17AM
I do the same. I am around 30TB and ~3k in disks ~200 or so with bluray.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:50PM
Too bad it's Seagate.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:12PM
Useless meme. Oooooh, Seagate made some shitty hard drives, that means their NAND SSDs are bad! Show us some data.
The NAND comes from Micron anyway. [seagate.com]
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Dunbal on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:30PM
Yeah that's what happens when you lose your reputation. I'll wait for some other sucker to take the risk in collecting the data.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday August 12 2016, @12:53AM
At least it's not Western Digital...they're currently showing about twice the failure rate of Seagate. Seagate had a couple crappy years but they're not doing too bad lately:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3071180/storage/who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-latest-backblaze-survey-claims-to-know.html [pcworld.com]
Western Digital is the only brand of hard drive I will no longer purchase under any circumstances. They *always* fail...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:31AM
I and several friends have 2-3 decades each of using and supporting computers. Guess which hard drive brand has been consistently crappier than the rest for all of us over those many years and continues to be today. Three guesses, first two don't count.
Micron may know memory, but Seagate has a long-earned reputation when it comes to storage. Let someone else be their guinea pig with this.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @02:45PM
Their biggest customer for this will be NSA. All things considered this may be a "good" thing.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:16AM
Yeah, too bad. I've had such horrible luck with Seagate in recent years. Fortunately, I bought the drives from Costco and I can always return them WHEN they crash.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Touché) by TheSouthernDandy on Tuesday August 09 2016, @10:51PM
Seagate has put a new lower limit on the amount of NAND flash that can be crammed into a 3.5" enclosure, by demonstrating a 60 TB solid state drive
I'm pretty sure I can set an even lower limit by cramming 0 TB into a 3.5" enclosure...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:08PM
It makes sense to me, but I was sick when I wrote it, and still am.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by butthurt on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:37PM
Without noticing the ambiguity, I understood your meaning as "...a new lower limit on the maximum amount..."
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:01PM
We'll need 16.7 million of these drives to store a zettabyte. About one zettabyte is transferred across the Internet in a year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/02/04/worlds-internet-traffic-to-surpass-one-zettabyte-in-2016/ [telegraph.co.uk]
Data centres will be able to use their space more efficiently.
https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/ [gov1.info]
(Score: 1, Troll) by takyon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:07PM
Woohoo! USA #1!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:33PM
But you store it de-duplicated.
So since it's all just the same inane crap and pron, one 60TB drive should suffice.
As a bonus the next year might dedup into there too!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday August 10 2016, @12:34AM
To backup the internet, you only need to store 4 files:
- socialMediaPost_rand.sh
- parameterizableCat.3D
- parameterizableNakedHuman.3D
- hollywoodSequelPlot_rand.sh (the latest version, with added parameters to remove character depths)
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday August 10 2016, @03:00AM
"Netflix to Encrypt its Video Streams with HTTPS" [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday August 12 2016, @01:41AM
Don't you mean pr0n?
(Score: 2) by fishybell on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:03AM
None of the pictures on that site show the datacenter on fire. That's not very realistic.
(Score: 1) by stretch611 on Wednesday August 10 2016, @04:40AM
I just might be able to fit my porn downloads on just 2 drives. :)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P