[Kitguru] The world’s first 13TB SSD has arrived

[mac007]

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If you have been watching the SSD space for the last few years, you have probably noticed that prices have gone down and capacities have started going up. However, as always if you want to be on the absolute cutting edge, it is going to cost you, which is the case here with the world’s first 13TB SSD.


Yes, you read that correctly, 13,000 GBs of sweet high-speed solid state storage on one drive from the company Fixstars. This drive will be sold directly by Fixstars and won’t be available through third-party retailers.


Now a spokesperson for the company, Shien Zhu, says that the current pricing estimate puts this drive at $1 per gigabyte, so the drive should cost somewhere in the neighbourhood of $13,000 though that figure hasn’t been officially decided on just yet.


The drive comes packaged in a 2.5-inch enclosure and runs at read speeds of 580MB/s and read speeds of 520MB/s. The drive uses NAND flash made by Toshiba and uses a proprietary controller that is designed for improved speeds overall. The drive is targeting mostly at companies working with large video files or streaming, rather than the average consumer.

Source: The world’s first 13TB SSD has arrived | KitGuru

 

[mac007]

Now who wanna spend 13000$ on an SSD??

 

[max007]

LOL ill buy a car instead of damn $13k SSD

 

[crysis2]

bilawal will definitely buy thid,

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[Blastwave]

Well this IS how new tech comes along and starts taking over.

Considering how 120GB SSDs started at 30,000 and now are under 10,000, TB level SSDs will soon be affordable enough.

Give it a couple of years.

 

[theuzair914]

And many cant even afford to buy 10k ssd. Who is gonna buy 13000$ ssd.

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[mac007]

mostly enterprises......