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    What's the biggest SSD memory as of now?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jhl1989, Dec 7, 2011.

  1. jhl1989

    jhl1989 Notebook Consultant

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    Samsung has a 512GB as of now. What's the biggest SSD memory as of now?
     
    jhl1989, Dec 7, 2011
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    If you have $$$, I'm sure you can (custom) order a 2.5" 1TB SSD for businesses from companies that serve enterprises and specialize in SSDs. It's not really reasonable for consumers yet...
     
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    So 512 GB is the biggest for customers right now?
     
    jhl1989, Dec 7, 2011
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    intel has a few 600gb ones... for $1k.... :eek:
     
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    512GB is max currently on consumer level. Frankly I dont think most of us will use that much.
     
    long2905, Dec 7, 2011
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    There's supposedly the OCZ Octane that's 1TB (Indillinx controller based) but I can't find anything about it.
     
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    Call it 1.45 USD per GB if it is priced like the 256 GB. That price was announced.

    So around $1500 US.

    Availability (and reliability) is of course still going to be a question. It is, after all, from OCZ.
     
    pkincy, Dec 9, 2011
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    Memory?

    Okay; you mean capacity.

    The biggest memory I have heard used in SSD controllers is 256MB DDR2.

    Although I don't like the idea of more 'volatile' memory being used: I can see 1GB (or larger) DDR3 dual/quad channel memory being beneficial for SSD's (with the appropriate CAPS being used as 'power backup' to ensure no data loss/corruption).

    I wonder when we'll see anything like that? (Maybe with much lower voltage DDR4 chips...).
     
    tilleroftheearth, Aug 1, 2012
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    OCZ Z-Drive R4 CloudServ RM1616

    16Tb SSD

    that's the biggest in a single device.
     
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    Pretty sure that won't fit in a notebook. :)
     
    tilleroftheearth, Aug 4, 2012
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    256MB is quite little these days. Most of the non-SF drives launched within the past 6 months have 512MB, and the Vertex 4 has a whopping 1 GB.
     
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    Yeah, I was just about to correct myself here (just finished reading the V4 firmware 1.4/1.5 review).

    See:
    AnandTech - OCZ Vertex 4 Review (128GB), Firmware 1.4/1.5 Tested


    Seems like we're almost there.

    (Still would like to see dual/quad channel setups with the appropriately sized microfarad capacitor to prevent data loss though).

    This would almost ensure that properly implemented, the SATA3 interface would not only get saturated - but stay saturated (w/appropriate workload...) at all/most performance metrics.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Aug 4, 2012
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