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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 tftp on Sunday May 10 2015, @07:22PM
attaching flash to SATA doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Why not plug it into the memory module sockets?
The DDR sockets are optimized for super-fast, synchronous, random access to DRAM cells, with minimum unit of storage being one byte. SATA is accessing an asynchronous block device - one that consists of a bunch of storage sectors that are read and written as a whole, and the access time is not guaranteed. The DRAM controller handles refresh, which Flash has no need for. The ATA controller implements DMA from/to the RAM, and many can do RAID. Those are quite different technologies.
(Score: 1) by EETech1 on Monday May 11 2015, @03:22AM
www.zdnet.com/article/flash-dimms-hit-server-market/
I believe IBM has them, if you can afford it!