“At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung has unveiled what appears to be the world’s largest hard drive — and somewhat surprisingly, it uses NAND flash chips rather than spinning platters,” Sebastian Anthony reports for Ars Technica.
“The rather boringly named PM1633a, which is being targeted at the enterprise market, manages to cram almost 16 terabytes into a 2.5-inch SSD package,” Anthony reports. “By comparison, the largest conventional hard drives made by Seagate and Western Digital currently max out at 8 or 10TB.”
“At the Flash Memory Summit, as reported by Golem.de, Samsung showed off a server with 48 of these new SSDs, with a total storage capacity of 768 terabytes and performance rated at 2,000,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second),” Anthony reports. “By comparison, the consumer-grade SSD that you have in your PC is probably capable of around 10,000-90,000 IOPS, depending on the workload.”
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