Samsung announces 16TB SSD

[Aaron Star]

Interesting.

Samsung announces 16TB SSD
•The 48 layer, 256Gbit (32GB), vertical NAND flash chip.
•The world’s largest – almost 16TB – drive.
•The world’s fastest – 1,000,000 IOPS – drive.
•A 2U box with over 700TB of capacity – roughly 15PB in a single rack.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-announces-16tb-ssd/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61

[Bob Zelin]

here is a 4TB SSD –
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1Z4-0015-00036&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Internal+SSDs-_-1Z4-0015-00036&gclid=CLrIgtSep8cCFUyPHwodhnEE5g&gclsrc=aw.ds

$5649 each. So how much will this 16 TB SSD cost. And if we put that in a 16 bay array (sixteen 16TB SSD) – which will be super fast, and super big – how much will that cost. And who will be willing to pay that cost (except for OpenDrive’s customers).

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com