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In Your Dream Machine: 6.5TB SSDs?

Posted 08/18/08 at 10:07:41 AM  by Paul Lilly

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Talk about a generational leap forward. The SSD revolution has barely begun, but while others are busy focusing on incremental capacity bumps nowhere near the size of the largest HDD, BitMicro says it can now make SSDs with a ginormous 6.5TB capacity.

According to TG Daily, the company made the claim at the Siggraph trade show held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The rep went on to say that the custom drives can have up to 55,000 input/output instructions per second (IOPS) with sustained (not burst) transfers of up to 230 MB/s. In other words, not only would this wonder drive thoroughly trounce today's SSDs in terms of capacity, but it would be faster too.

The drives would also be physically bigger, with the loose-lipped rep saying the custom SSDs would be about two to three times higher than a regular drive.

Anyone think we'll see 1TB SSDs before long, let alone 6.5TB models?

Image Credit: BitMicro

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TAGS: storage, ssd, build a pc, solid state disk
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avatarHow about server/storage application? Are SSD's hot swappable

Submitted by DDTechGuy on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 8:22am

Imagine the storage possibilities if these have a simular, or longer, MTBF rate; 32 of these bad boys in a 2-4U rack mounted storage farm! (Maybe THEN we could say "we have enough space" again, and meant it! LOL)

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avatar32gb SD cards

Submitted by GIJames on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 8:34am

Considering that you can get a 32 gigabyte SD card, it's no suprise that they can make an absurdly large SSD.

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avatarHey I would surrender 2 or

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 4:18am

Hey I would surrender 2 or 3 3.5" slots for one drive that is super fast and has a capacity of 6.5TB. Who would'nt? Why would I ever really need to upgrade ever again? Perhaps two of them for redundancy and thats it.

This is the way of the future. The Samsung F1 hdd will one day be installed into cheap budget pc's to just get by.

I want two of these puppies. Heck who says that you even have to install them in a 3.5" bay? You can use double sided sticky tape to attach these puppies anywhere in your case. Excellent.

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avatarThey sure are hyping up SSD's...

Submitted by dwr50 on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 7:48am

HD's are at their lowest prices yet, and still they try to push us overpriced crap. That's advertising for you. lol

 

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avatarNice!

Submitted by Dysthymia on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 7:38am

As soon as they get 'em down to the size of a DVD+-RW drive, i'll buy one! If they're cheap enough... yeah, not gonna happen anytime soon.

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avatar6.5 TB SSDs? Sure! Except it

Submitted by Haipyng on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 7:33am

6.5 TB SSDs? Sure! Except it would be about the size of my filing cabinet using today's technology. If they wanted to give me one, I wouldn't say no...

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