Posted on 03/03/2016 10:04:15 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
We mentioned these before, and they are for real. Samsung is now shipping the industry's largest solid state drive (SSD) - the "PM1633a," a 15.36 terabyte (TB) drive.
First revealed at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit in August, the 15.36TB SSD is based on a 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, for use in enterprise storage systems. Because the PM1633a comes in a 2.5-inch form factor, enterprise storage managers can fit twice as many of the drives in a standard 19-inch, 2U rack, compared to an equivalent 3.5-inch storage drive
"To satisfy an increasing market need for ultra-high-capacity SAS SSDs from leading enterprise storage system manufacturers, we are directing our best efforts toward meeting our customers' SSD requests," said Jung-bae Lee, Senior Vice President, Memory Product Planning and Application Engineering Team, Samsung Electronics. "We will continue to lead the industry with next-generation SSDs, using our advanced 3D V-NAND memory technology, in order to accelerate the growth of the premium memory market while delivering greater performance and efficiency to our customers."
Samsung's new PM1633a SSD provides the opportunity for significant improvements in the efficiency of IT system investments through its high storage capacity and exceptional performance. These performance gains stem from Samsung's latest vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash technology, as well as the company's proprietary controller and firmware technology.
The PM1633a SSD sports random read and write speeds of up to 200,000 and 32,000 IOPS respectively, and delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,200MB/s. The random read IOPS performance is approximately 1,000 times that of SAS-type hard disks, while the sequential read and write speeds are over twice those of a typical SATA SSD. Inside the new SSD lie Samsung's advanced controller units that support the 12Gb/s SAS interface, along with a total of 16GB of DRAM. Samsung also uses specially designed firmware that can access large amounts of high-density NAND flash concurrently.
The 15.36TB PM1633a drive supports 1 DWPD (drive writes per day), which means 15.36TB of data can be written every day on this single drive without failure, a level of reliability that will improve cost of ownership for enterprise storage systems. This drive can write from two to ten times as much data as typical SATA SSDs based on planar MLC and TLC NAND flash technologies.
Further, the drive boasts a highly dependable metadata protection mechanism in addition to featuring a data protection and restoration software tool in case of a momentary blackout, which make enterprise systems more stable and manageable.
Starting with the 15.36TB density, Samsung will provide a wide range of capacity options in its PM1633a SSD line-up - 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960-gigabyte (GB) and 480GB later this year. With more choices in storage capacity, Samsung is reinforcing the competitiveness in its SAS SSD line-up. The Samsung PM1633a SSD line-up is expected to rapidly become the overwhelming favorite over hard disks for enterprise storage systems.
Um yes, they did not share any pricing ;) It's a bit of a brick but well, thjere you go:
Dayem! I remember the DASD I supported was 988 MB and could only get 4 of them into a full size rack. Then we upgrades to EMC Harmonix 3’s and get 10 200 mb units into a rack. That gave us all of 2 gb.
Unreal!
I work for a major company that skimps on back office hard drive/network space and processors. Of course, the whole system collapses every now and then resulting in hundreds of man hours of valuable lost. Technology is cheap it is the people who are expensive.
I remember when a 750 megabyte hard drive was of such note, people from other departments were coming by to admire it. It took 48 hours to format and weighed about 10 pounds.
Yeah, that's an old ad (early 1980s?)! Back in 1985 (I think), I bought a 20-Megabyte HD for $400. My boss was pissed off at me, yelling that he paid $500 for his 5-Megabyte HD not long before my purchase. These HDs were huge compared to the floppies we were using. The 5-1/4 floppies went from about 80KB in half a decade later to 1.4MB, puny compared to a HD at 20MB. I think a 100MB HD was about $1000 at the time. I still have a couple 5MB HDs (1982) sitting in my vintage collection, they have a large footprint.
Memories!
AND they've introduced their new DSSD D5 rack-scale flash platform. Some really nice stuff...to put it mildly.
These new arrays can scale to 53TB of usable capacity, which can be expanded up to a maximum of 500TB in 13TB increments.
And now a 5TB chip???? WOW.
The max of the top of the line array of this series seems to be 8 V-Bricks for a total of 4 Petabytes.
To be clear the 5tb is a drive. The largest microsd cards, like the picture you showed, are currently in the range of 200gb. Which is still amazing at the size of a fingernail.
Btw, those 200gb microsd cards sell for $80, which is also crazy, considering what I remember paying for a 200gb hdd not too long ago.
In today’s money that $2,500 would be equivalent to around $5,500.
I want.
I used to work on IBM 3350 and 3380 disk systems. Big giant platters. The principle on these giant systems were no different than the floppy or HD systems on PCs. I wrote machine code to manipulate the read/write heads on 3350s to seek data from cyl/trk/sectors in custom database software. Expensive drives, we lost a few of the newer ones at a mainframe site I ran during the 1989 earthquake and were down almost a week when IBM was scrambling to replace many client’s equipment. Solid state stuff is much more resilient and hardy during earthquakes (but not as much fun).
I don’t got back that far, but I definitely remember when HD memory broke the $1/megabyte barrier.
And I recently bought a 5TB external drive for $129. And I can fill it up, too.
Gimme!
Note to candidates.
Start giving stuff like this away in exchange for votes. The fed gov should subsidize it, it does every other dumbass idea (and this is the dumbassyist).
This would beat the hell out of Obamaphones.
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