{"id":86724,"date":"2016-03-03T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86724"},"modified":"2016-03-03T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:13:00","slug":"the-largest-ssd-yet-samsungs-15tb-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86724-the-largest-ssd-yet-samsungs-15tb-ssd","title":{"rendered":"The largest SSD yet: Samsung’s 15TB SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Toshiba, SSDs are expected to reach sizes of up 128TB<\/a> by 2018. But before we get even close to 128TB, we’re going to have to break the 10TB barrier at the very least.<\/p>\n

Intel looks like they’re about to do just that with an upcoming range of 10TB SSDs<\/a>, but apparently Samsung has beaten them to it, and then some.<\/p>\n

Samsung has smashed expectations by launching a new SSD at a capacity of 15TB<\/a>, following their reveal of a portable 2TB SSD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sadly, this 15TB SSD is designed for enterprise systems.\u00a0Known as the\u00a0the\u00a0PM1633a<\/a><\/strong>, this SSD is technically a 15.36TB drive and was showcased at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit in August.<\/p>\n

The drive’s technology is based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface and is 2.5-inches in size.<\/p>\n

According to Samsung<\/a>, this is how they achieved this new storage capacity with SSD technology:<\/p>\n

The unprecedented 15.36TB of data storage on a single SSD is enabled by combining 512 of Samsung\u2019s 256Gb V-NAND memory chips. The 256Gb dies are stacked in 16 layers to form a single 512GB package, with a total of 32 NAND flash packages in the 15.36TB drive. Utilizing Samsung\u2019s 3rd generation, 256-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND technology which stacks cell-arrays in 48 layers, the PM1633a line-up provides significant performance and reliability upgrades from its predecessor, the PM1633, which used Samsung\u2019s 2nd generation, 32-layer, 128Gb V-NAND memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With SSDs now reaching insane capacities, thanks to 3D NAND fash memory (or V-NAND in Samsung’s case), it’s not so far fetched to expect SSD storage capacities to reach upwards of 128TB in the future.<\/p>\n

This leaves us wondering if the cost will eventually come down, and moreover, does this spell doom and gloom for traditional mechanical drives?<\/p>\n

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Source: Samsung Newsroom<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

More on SSDs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Samsung\u2019s portable 2TB SSD, the T3<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel SSDs to soon reach 10TB capacities<\/a><\/p>\n

A PS4 SSD upgrade may be in order<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following their reveal of a portable 2TB SSD, Samsung has smashed capacity expectations with the announcement of 15TB SSDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":86730,"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":[17430,14528,1085,1969,1435,2101,15227],"class_list":["post-86724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-15tb","tag-hard-drives","tag-hardware-2","tag-news-2","tag-samsung","tag-ssd","tag-v-nand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86724","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\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86732,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86724\/revisions\/86732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}