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from the better-than-a-shoebox-of-microSD-cards dept.
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: 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!
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(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.