Ars Technica:
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. 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. By comparison, the largest conventional hard drives made by Seagate and Western Digital currently max out at 8 or 10TB.
That’s quite a lot of porn.
Slashdot just called from 1999 – they want their what-to-do-with-lots-of-disk-space joke back 😉
Cool. Samsung should stick with what they’re good at; components.
Sigh…yeah…that’s fair….I could do better….
I remember when I was paying $330 for a 1 gig drive, the tech went to the back and came back to me with a 10gig drive, cradling it in his hands like it was a newborn baby. It cost $10,000!
I can’t wait! This is going to make my photo collection easy to deal with. And I’ll put four of them (when they come down to $500 each) in a very fast RAID.
That’s “Enterprise Porn”
When I was 16 years old, in 1995, I did a ‘work experience’ placement at a university in their computing centre. Taking absolute pride of place in the data hall was a £40,000 1GB hard-disk that took up two complete cabinets! At the time I’d just bought a 420MB HDD for my Amiga, and that must’ve been about £200. 1GB just seemed impossibly big. And expensive. You could buy a small house for less than £40,000 back then.
You guys can’t bring yourselves to say one nice thing about Samsung, can you?
They do certain things very well. Other things, not so much.
I love my Samsung TV. B^)
That’s exactly my point! I mean, Apple still hires (trusts?) them for their main microprocessors, right? 🙂 But instead of saying something like, “Now this is actually cool”, they have to use this as an outlet for their juvenile humor.