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Big things can come in small packages. According to Computerworld, Samsung has released the world's first 2 TB consumer SSDs:
Samsung today announced what it is calling the first multi-terabyte consumer solid-state drive (SSD), which will offer 2TB of capacity in a 2.5-in. form factor for laptops and desktops.
[...] The 850 Pro is designed for power users and client PCs that may need higher performance with up to 550MBps sequential read and 520MBps sequential write rates and up to 100,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS). The 850 EVO SSD has slightly lower performance with 540MBps and 520MBps sequential read/write rates and up to 90,000 random IOPS.
The 2TB model of the 850 Pro will retail for $999.99 and the 850 EVO will sell for $799.99.
The 1TB EVO SSD will retail for $399; the 500GB for $179; the 250GB for $99 and the 120GB for $69. The 1TB 850 Pro will retail for $499; the 512GB model for $259; the 256GB model for $144.99 and the 128GB model for $99.
[...] Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 Pro for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW.
To put that in perspective, there are approximately 7 billion people on earth. One of these drives has sufficient space to keep about 285 bytes of information on every single person on the planet! Put another way, that is over 6 KB for every single person in the USA.
(Score: 2) by forkazoo on Tuesday July 07 2015, @05:52PM
Endurance being a "non issue" depends somewhat on workload and industry. Typical file server or SOHO tasks are fine. If you are running a CG compositing workstation doing Nuke comps in 4K or higher, caching several TB of images per work day can actually be very normal and you could run into 100 TB in something like a month of heavy use. SSD as cache frontend in a large (PB+) storage cluster server serving many (100's + ) heavy users can see even higher usage.
But yeah, in practice something else goes before literal flash endurance exhaustion in most workloads. The desktop machine I am writing this post on has a ~4 year old SSD that still seems to work fun. (Though its twin that was purchased at the same time gave up over a year ago, so I should probably start being pretty paranoid...)