Samsung working on 16 terabyte SSD

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/12/2015 02:12 PM | source: | 22 comment(s)

During the Flash memory summit keynote, Samsung has been talking about a new 16 terabyte SSD that is in development. The storage unit will be based on a 2.5" form factor with SAS connectivity and new 48-layer TLC V-Nand memory.

Its now known how Samsung will be dealing with that many ICs, but its likely to assume that the storage unit will have multiple PCBs in one 2.5" casing. If you do some quick math, Samsung would need to place 480 256Gb V-NAND-dies into the unit. The product will be called PM1633a and is the successor to the PM1633 that has 3.84TB os storage capacity.

To go into all stud mode, Samsung has been demoing these SSDs in a 2U rack server, they had 48 units in there that combined had 768TB of storage space. Have a peek at some slides below. V3 256 Gb 850 EVO SSDs are in production as well.

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Loophole35
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#5140668 Posted on: 08/12/2015 02:15 PM

And it will cost over $1000.

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#5140679 Posted on: 08/12/2015 02:40 PM

When Samsung make their EVO 850 2TB SSD's £250 then i'll be impressed. But a 16TB SSD with pie in the sky prices, no thanks.

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#5140680 Posted on: 08/12/2015 02:41 PM

And it will cost over $1000.

Add another 0 to the end of that and you might be close.

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#5140681 Posted on: 08/12/2015 02:43 PM

Samsung 3.84 TB version costs $2200 so 16 TB should cost $9000 or maybe $9999.
1.92 TB costs $1100
Samsung consumers deserves to be fooled.
Samsung has the worst ratio on price/performance on ALL products, starting with TVs and ending with medicine equipment.
Open your eyes.

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#5140682 Posted on: 08/12/2015 02:45 PM

That's quite capacity. Not interested in anything over 1TB as those sizes are meant for storage of big files and I do not need to read movie in 15 seconds.

For games 2x 1TB would be superb. So i hope improvements in density can bring prices down. But my last 240GB Vertex 480a did cost 1/2 of original price of 128GB kingston which was my 1st SSD. So it already came 4 times cheaper per GB.

But HDD are still like 10~12 times cheaper than SSD, so I see a lot of space for improvement.

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