When talking computing needs, business or enterprise users typically think of one thing before anything else – how much storage space is available? Business files, after all, aren’t the types of content you can get rid of when there’s no more space available. Samsung’s new solid-state drive, however, may be the largest hard drive of any kind in existence, as it comes with a whopping 16 TB of space, enough to make any business user salivate with excitement. (Same with music geeks and hardcore gamers, but most can get by with just a terabyte or two at most.)
The new SSD, which was unveiled this week at the Flash Memory Summit, comes with the nondescript name PM1633a, and not surprisingly, it is indeed targeted at enterprise users. Its main party trick is Samsung’s proprietary 256 Gbit (32 GB) NAND flash die, which offers twice as much space as 128 Gbit NAND dies that had debuted last year in commercial applications. Boring technical details aside, this 2.5-inch SSD does offer 16 terabytes of free space, which is about twice that on the largest Seagate or Western Digital hard drive (about 8 to 10 TB for these conventional drives). And we don’t expect it to cost cheap once it finally becomes available.
As a point of comparison, the average 1 TB SSD for enterprise use costs about $1,000, while enterprise-grade 8 TB hard drives are priced at about $700. Keeping that in mind, we don’t think Samsung’s new SSD will cost anything less than about $8,000 to $10,000, but with that premium pricing comes all the solid-state drive you or your business can handle – the world’s largest in terms of capacity.
No comments:
Post a Comment