{"id":80471,"date":"2015-08-25T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80471"},"modified":"2015-08-25T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T08:02:02","slug":"ssds-to-reach-128tb-by-2018-claims-toshiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80471-ssds-to-reach-128tb-by-2018-claims-toshiba","title":{"rendered":"SSDs to reach 128TB by 2018 claims Toshiba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we talked about Seagate\u2019s promising HAMR technology<\/a> for hard disk drives (HDDs) and its ability to push HDDs into the hundreds of terabytes.<\/p>\n

We also remarked at the obsolescence of NAND flash memory in SSDs thanks to Intel\u2019s 3D Xpoint Optane SSDs<\/a>. Now it seems, according to Toshiba at least, NAND flash still has a few tricks up its sleeve.<\/p>\n

In order to reduce cost and improve capacity of traditional SSDs, Toshiba plans to make use of something they\u2019re calling quad-level cell (QLC) and bit cost scalable (BiCS) as well as stackable 3D NAND flash memory.<\/p>\n

At a recent event, reports Nordic Hardware<\/a>, Toshiba announced their plans to make use of said technologies to push SSDs to 128TB in the coming years.<\/p>\n

\"Toshiba<\/a>

Toshiba’s QLC and BiCS SSD roadmap.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toshiba has quite obviously not taken into account HAMR technology, otherwise their projected capacity for HDDs would be a heck of a lot higher, perhaps even surpassing SSDs along the way.<\/p>\n

One thing to keep in mind is that even if SSDs surpass HDDs in capacity, they\u2019re likely to cost a lot more, and we mean a lot.<\/p>\n

Do not expect SSDs to drop below the price of HDDs anytime soon.<\/p>\n

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Source: KitGuru<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

On the subject of hardware<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Locally, the GTX 950 just isn\u2019t worth it<\/a><\/p>\n

Greenland, Baffin and Ellesmere: AMD\u2019s newest GPUs<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel\u2019s most advanced reference cooler to date: the TS15A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that NAND flash still has a trick or two up its sleeves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15515,15525,15521,2589,1085,15517,1969,15523,15519,2101,9921],"class_list":["post-80471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-128tb","tag-3d-nand","tag-bics","tag-hard-drive","tag-hardware-2","tag-nand-flash-memory","tag-news-2","tag-qlc","tag-quad-level-cell","tag-ssd","tag-toshiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}