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 takyon on Sunday May 10 2015, @07:36PM
It's called NVMe. It can allow SSDs to read/write more than 2 GB/s.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9090/intel-ssd-750-pcie-ssd-review-nvme-for-the-client [anandtech.com]
There's a reason I wrote that this 6 TB drive is "not particularly fast", and it's called NVMe.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 10 2015, @11:19PM
Yeah, PCI-e is probably fast enough to make a serious difference. And it's a standard to. Otoh.. perhaps not much faster than S-ATA. BUT it can be utilized with many parallel channels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @10:16AM
The fastest SATA is 6 Gbps. PCIe3 is 8 Gbps per lane. An x16 slot is 128 Gbps. PCIe4 will be twice as fast as PCIe3.