Seagate built a whopping 60TB SSD that it aims ship next year

Seagate's 60TB SSD is displayed at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California, on Aug. 9, 2016.

http://www.itworld.com/article/3105...ing-60tb-ssd-that-it-aims-ship-next-year.html

 

Man I give my left ((*& for that... lol but good to hear they are pushing SSD storage....

 

It will probably cost $60 000.. Lol

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Samsung's massive 32TB SSD includes cutting-edge 3D chip technology

Samsung's 32TB SSD is being shown at the Flash Memory Summit being held in Santa Clara from August 8 to 11, 2016.

Credit: Samsung

"Samsung's SSD can fit in smaller 2.5-inch slots, while Seagate's 60TB drive fits in 3.5-inch slots. Samsung could have made a higher capacity SSD for 3.5-inch slots, but the company backs the smaller drive slots."

"Samsung also announced the new Z-SSD, which is NAND flash designed to be used as cache or temporary storage in data centers. It fits a need "between SSD and DRAM" but delivers close to DRAM performance, Smith said. These types of drives are designed for flash arrays in which data is stored temporarily while being processed by computers.

The Z-SSD will provide four times lower latency and 1.6 times faster sequential read speed than the Samsung PM963 NVMe SSD, which is a high-end enterprise SSD."

"The 32TB SSD is the first one based on Samsung's fourth generation V-NAND flash memory, which stacks 64 NAND storage layers in one chip package. That's the highest density available in chips.

The technology delivers higher sequential read-and-write performance than its predecessor, the 48-layer third generation V-NAND flash memory, Smith said."



http://www.cio.com/article/3105871/...includes-cutting-edge-3d-chip-technology.html

 

Seagate for a storage subsystem with data you want to keep? Uhm, no.

 

Agreed lol.. If I ever new how bad Seagate was would have never bough the Momentus XT drive from them.. Thank god it didn't die at least when I owned my G73JH!

 

With the first SSHD drive they offered (only 500GB, but 7200RPM was key...), I decided to give them another try too. The deal was supposed to be that even if the SSD part died, the data would still be accessible.

Fast forward 1 week, 3 months and between 6 and 9 months later (over a half a dozen drives dead... in not only my own systems, but client's systems too... sigh...). The first one (1 week), I wrote off to an almost DOA. The rest? Just reaffirmed that Seagate has no clue on how to do storage subsystems. Besides, the Hitachi TravelStars were still going strong (and almost as fast - without the 'SSD' nonsense - for half the price or less... and most importantly; no data loss, either).

 

I have positive experience with their later 2.5" SSHD models (Momentus XT 2nd gen, Laptop SSHD & Laptop SSHD Thin) , as well as 1TB and above Seagate-Samsung HDDs. Hitachi always lacked capacity-wise, while WD delivered even worse drives of non-standard height. (infamous 2.5" 15mm WD Green). In order to have a 2.5" 4TB SATA drive - not an abonimation with unreliable native USB connector - there are still no other options; last 3 or 4 years, for capacity in 2.5" form-factor Seagate-Samsung was and still is the one and only brand that delivers.

 

Starlight5, I am not doubting your experience at all.

Capacity (at all costs) though, has never been the goal of my mobile systems. Once $600 60GB 7200RPM Hitachi 7K60 Travelstar drives greatly increased my productivity while away from the office - much more than the 100GB + models that were available shortly thereafter (but at the slower 5400RPM speeds).

Seagate has never performed well for any of my setups (or my customers' either). Losing data once is a bad way to start the day. Losing it multiple times over multiple systems over an extended (years) period and wanting to keep 'trying' them to see if they've improved at all is just tempting the gods.

It is good to see that Seagate seems to have improved. When other options aren't available (again) I may be forced to use them once more (hopefully in the distant future...).

 

Truer words have rarely ever been spoken. Seagate has a long way to go on the reliability front.