{"id":16095,"date":"2015-08-13T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/wow-samsungs-new-16-terabyte-ssd-is-the-worlds-largest-hard-drive"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:48:50","slug":"wow-samsungs-new-16-terabyte-ssd-is-the-worlds-largest-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/wow-samsungs-new-16-terabyte-ssd-is-the-worlds-largest-hard-drive","title":{"rendered":"Wow, Samsung\u2019s New 16 Terabyte SSD Is the World\u2019s Largest Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wow-samsungs-new-16-terabyte-ssd-is-the-worlds-largest-hard-drive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gone are the days when you have to sacrifice size for speed with an SSD drive in your laptop. At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashmemorysummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flash Memory Summit<\/a> in California, Samsung just <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/gadgets\/2015\/08\/samsung-unveils-2-5-inch-16tb-ssd-the-worlds-largest-hard-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed a new 2.5-inch SSD drive with an incredible 16 terabytes of storage<\/a>. It\u2019s not only the world\u2019s largest SSD\u2014it\u2019s actually now the world\u2019s largest hard drive, period.<\/p>\n<p>So how on Earth did Samsung pull off a such an incredible feat? Inside the PM1633a SSD you\u2019ll find stacks and stacks of the company\u2019s latest and greatest 256Gbit NAND flash dies, which are twice the capacity of the 128Gbit NAND flash dies currently in use. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/gadgets\/2015\/08\/samsung-unveils-2-5-inch-16tb-ssd-the-worlds-largest-hard-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica\u2019s calculations<\/a>, there should be somewhere around 480 to 500 of the dies inside Samsung\u2019s new SSD. Which is even more impressive given it still fits inside a 2.5-inch housing, although it\u2019s probably a lot taller than most.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the million dollar question about the new 16TB SSD\u2014how much does it cost?\u2014is thankfully <em>not<\/em> a million dollars. However, the first units will probably sell in the range of $5,000 to $7,000 and will be targeted for use in servers and other enterprise applications. But over time, as with all technology, the massive SSDs will certainly drop in price and trickle down to consumers\u2014just in time for our storage demands spiking thanks to 4K movie downloads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/wow-samsungs-new-16-terabyte-ssd-is-the-worlds-largest-1723884725\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days when you have to sacrifice size for speed with an SSD drive in your laptop. At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung just revealed a new 2.5-inch SSD drive with an incredible 16 terabytes of storage. It\u2019s not only the world\u2019s largest SSD\u2014it\u2019s actually now the world\u2019s largest hard drive, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64457,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions\/64457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}