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6 Terabyte 2.5" SSD Coming in July

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

takyon writes:

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: 1) by nitehawk214 on Sunday May 10 2015, @06:45PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Sunday May 10 2015, @06:45PM (#181132)

    For spinning disks? I don't know anymore. Certainly not Western Digital, though. I have had 3 out of 4 2T drives fail in a year. and two of those were DOA.

    But I have 2 SanDisk SSDs for one for over a year and the other for a few months. Both have been operating wonderfully. My work has several more Sandisk and Samsung drives in our database servers, and I have never actually seen a failed SSD yet. The ones at work get hammered pretty hard and have been for a couple of years, so I can say those work.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:37PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:37PM (#181242) Journal

    Yeah, spinning. are you sure it's WD thats bad and not just the cutting edge harddisks?

    And I read that SSD doesn't degrade gracefully. It's a complete mess to recover if even possible in any meaningful way.

    • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:12AM

      by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:12AM (#181771)

      My backup strategies do not cover recovering a disk. I always have mirrors of everything I care about, and if a disk fails it gets pulled and replaced. (Though with my current WD Raid0 failure, I am using the ghetto rsync solution to a different drive.) If the mirror itself fails, that is what offline backup is for.

      I had been using WD drives for quite a long time now, but it has only been this recent batch that have had failures. My guess is that the rise of SSDs and consolidation has really put a pinch on profits, and WD has let quality slip. Things with moving parts are bound to fail eventually, but this has been quite absurd.

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      "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh