By Darren Allan
There’s been plenty of storage news emerging, due to the fact that the Flash Memory Summit is currently underway in Santa Clara, and Seagate has certainly come up with a headline-grabbing development: a massive 60TB SSD.
Yes, you read that right, this is a solid-state drive which uses 3D TLC NAND (that stacks storage cells vertically to cram more in) from Micron to offer no less than 60TB of storage. That’s four times the size of Samsung’s monster 15TB SSD which became available to buy recently.
However, before we get too carried away, at the moment this SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drive is just a tech demo, so no one is going to be able to purchase one any time soon. The full release of the drive won’t pitch up until next year – and even then it will be available in limited quantities for a very niche audience.
And of course it will boast an exorbitant price – the aforementioned Samsung 15TB model, for example, runs to almost $9,700 (around £7,400, AU$12,600).
Storage of the future
Still, it’s a hugely impressive achievement for Seagate, and while this is obviously aimed at the enterprise market and server usage, it’s an indicator of how we …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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