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posted by martyb on Sunday May 10 2015, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-first-hard-disk-had-40-MB dept.

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: 2) by takyon on Sunday May 10 2015, @04:21PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday May 10 2015, @04:21PM (#181105) Journal

    As long as Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. continue to use HDDs, you still are, and there's no better consumer option for offline bulk storage. No SSDs, tapes, BD-XLs.

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