Posted on 08/16/2015 4:56:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Samsung unveils 2.5-inch 16TB SSD: The world’s largest hard drive
Third-generation 3D V-NAND is now up to 48 TLC layers and 256Gbit per die.
by Sebastian Anthony - Aug 13, 2015 9:16pm JST
At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung has unveiled what appears to be the world's largest hard drive—and somewhat surprisingly, it uses NAND flash chips rather than spinning platters. The rather boringly named PM1633a, which is being targeted at the enterprise market, manages to cram almost 16 terabytes into a 2.5-inch SSD package. By comparison, the largest conventional hard drives made by Seagate and Western Digital currently max out at 8 or 10TB.
The secret sauce behind Samsung's 16TB SSD is the company's new 256Gbit (32GB) NAND flash die; twice the capacity of 128Gbit NAND dies that were commercialised by various chip makers last year. To reach such an astonishing density, Samsung has managed to cram 48 layers of 3-bits-per-cell (TLC) 3D V-NAND into a single die. This is up from 24 layers in 2013, and then 36 layers in 2014.
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The going price for Samsung's 2.5-inch 2TB SSD is between $800 and $1,000.
Even if Bill Gates was referring only to RAM instead of storage, 64k was awfully small minded.
Didn't Gates say 640K (which was the amount of space left in the 8086/8088 one megabyte address space after you removed the space for the ROM, graphics and other memory mapped devices).
I would love to know what was in his head for that. All I can figure is it was to be some sort of sales or marketing thing that he never intended to stick to because common sense tells you there is no such animal as ‘enough’. Because there will always someone coming up with a ‘
+1’ requirement to imposed limits.
Maybe I’m mistaken but I thought it was 64.
When are you going to have a 128-bit processor and hundreds of gigabytes of RAM? That would speed up the processing time further.
Perhaps because Moore’s law (which was forward thinking) had yet to be proclaimed, and no one in tech (including Gates) was able to imagine the progress that was possible.
When are weyou going
Yea but tech aside look at extra-tech stuff. You build a boat to go shark hunting and suddenly “We’re gonna need a bigger boat. You set out to conquer Waterloo and realize you need a bigger army.
You build a 2 bedroom house and your wife announces she’s preggers with your third child.
Basically, I mean there’s always something requiring ‘more’.
For better or worse, I see a number of areas of society where people don't "own" things -- cars, bicycles, etc. Computers could be next.
My first PC was a Tandy 286 with a 40MB HD.
Actually, a huge issue with mass storage on PC’s is not only the spinning disk drive, but also the speed of the interface. With the current PCIe interface for mass storage drives plus the SSD’s with the 3D XPoint technology, we’re talking cold boot times measured in only a few seconds.
True or not, that quote was in reference to RAM, not hard drive space.
Now my first computer back around 1992 had a 129MB hard drive. I thought I was king of the mountain at that time because most computers were still shipping with 40MB or 80MB hard drives.
I still have that computer (IBM PS/1) and when I was moving to my new house, I unboxed it and was able to successfully boot it up into Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Lot of my Prodigy Whitewater BB postings are still on that hard drive so some sentimental value there. Only problem is - I need to get that stuff off with a floppy disk!
In not so distant feature, we could have integrated monthly utility bills with numerous items in it: water, electricity, Internet usage, cell phone, your computer hardware/software usage, cloud data storage, car usage, mortgage for your house, etc.
On the other subject, this development would encourage developers to churn out more bloatware. It reduce an incentive to create more streamlined code.
lol!
woozers!!!
So how many of Hillary’s emails can fit on it?
maybe the only Jim Carry movie i could tolerate.
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