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martyb [soylentnews.org] writes:

Samsung announces the world's highest capacity SSD — 15TB of storage [computerworld.com]:

The 2.5-in SSD is based on a 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface for use in enterprise storage systems. The PM1633a has blazing fast performance, with random read and write speeds of up to 200,000 and 32,000 I/Os per second (IOPS), respectively. It delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 1200MBps, the company said. A typical SATA SSD can peak at about 550MBps.

Because the PM1633a comes in a 2.5-in. form factor, IT managers can fit twice as many of the drives in a standard 19-in. 2U (3.5-in.) rack, compared to an equivalent 3.5-in. storage drive. The SSD also sets a new bar for sustainability, Samsung said. The 15.36TB PM1633a drive supports one full drive write per day, which means 15.36TB of data can be written every day on a single drive without failure over its five-year warranty.

[...] The performance of the PM1633a SSD is based on four factors: the 3D NAND (vertical NAND or V-NAND) chips; 16GB of DRAM; Samsung's proprietary controller chip; and the 12Gbps SAS interface.

Unfortunately, these drives are slated for enterprise use — you won't be able to order one for your home system. Also, though these are described as 2.5-inch drives, they are 15mm high instead of the typical 9/7/5mm you would find in your laptop.

I'm curious if there are any Soylentils who could actually make use of such a drive. What workloads do you have that could benefit from such capacity high and speed?

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