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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You Dinosaur era ‘On the bare metal’ types amaze me. I just can’t wrap my head around how you figured any of that out in the first place. All dark voodoo to me. I can grasp some complicated stuff like 3D modeling and learned it back in the early days of that tech... but it’s nothing remotely comparable to that writing machine code stuff/Hex or understanding it. .
“FORTRAN”
That’s some seriously next level sXit right there ;)
Kidding aside I swear I read something recently about FORTRAN making something of a small scale comeback.
I liked using FORTRAN. It was relitively simple and effective. The lead analyst was using SEL MPX, I think, or it might have been an early version of UNIX. They were great days Norm. I remember them fondly. We even did tape saves in the day. A rolling 14 day set of tapes was our backup. The tapes were checked for content and then filed. Just before the completion of factory acceptance testing for the simulator one of our 300 meg disc packs crashed. After getting our disc pack back, imagine our suprise to find out that 12 of our 14 day running tape saves were blank. The write head had failed on our tape recorder. Obviously, the saves were not checked as required. If the disc pack had failed two days later we would have lost 50-60 man years worth of work. It was a great time.
It was allegedly 640K. But, it's the equivalent of an urban legend. Gates was never actually quoted saying that.
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