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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tynin on Sunday May 10 2015, @04:35PM
We have several thousand 1TB Crucial M550 drives at work (and are getting ready to buy ~8k more in the near term, we've been very happy with them). Without having any numbers to work with, the failure rate I've noticed has been extremely low (lower than the HDDs). Before that we experimented with OCZ, but they were garbage and were failing out so often we couldn't keep the environment stable.
For home use, I picked one up a 1TB M550 and I've continued to be pleased with it (used camelcamelcamel.com to watch the price, when it fell to $300 I picked it up). Prior to that for home use I was only buying Intel SSDs (X-25M, and two 520's), of which I've had zero failures.