[TomsIT] 4, 8, and 16TB SSD's on way.

[Bubbleawsome]

4TB now, 8TB later this year, and 16TB early 2015.
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/sandisk-4-tb-optimus-ssd-lightning,1-1925.html

SanDisk is unveiling the industry's first 4TB serial attached SCSI solid state drive along with several new 12Gb/s and 6GB/s workload specific SAS SSDs.

Not quite consumer yet awe but still pretty amazing. I'm excited.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

4TB now, 8TB later this year, and 16TB early 2015.
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/sandisk-4-tb-optimus-ssd-lightning,1-1925.html

Not quite consumer yet awe but still pretty amazing. I'm excited.

Well, I remember what things were like before the Z68 chipset and when SSDs cost a bundle. I built a workstation for too much money with four disks just so I could get a single Terabyte volume as RAID5. Now, people are buying 3 and 4TB drives for GPT partitioning, and I've bought several 2TB units. So it begs the question how much these marvelous high-capacity SSDs will cost. If I had the money to spend, I'd get rid of several hard disks and build a server on a foundation of SSDs. But even with the 1TB Sammy 840's, that's just too many buckets of ducats for me right now. . . .

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Nice.

If those density numbers are even half true, my NAS'll be replaced with a NUC before 2020.

 

[Atreidin]

Well, I remember what things were like before the Z68 chipset and when SSDs cost a bundle. I built a workstation for too much money with four disks just so I could get a single Terabyte volume as RAID5. Now, people are buying 3 and 4TB drives for GPT partitioning, and I've bought several 2TB units. So it begs the question how much these marvelous high-capacity SSDs will cost. If I had the money to spend, I'd get rid of several hard disks and build a server on a foundation of SSDs. But even with the 1TB Sammy 840's, that's just too many buckets of ducats for me right now. . . .

It is closer to raising the question of how much it will cost. I doubt I'll be able to afford huge SSDs for my file storage needs, but I hope it gives a kick in the pants of the hard drive manufacturers to get in gear and actually try improving hard drive sizes. Maybe it's just me but it feels like hard drive sizes have been stuck for way too long. We've had 4TB drives for how long now? Only recently we are seeing a trickle of super expensive 6TB drives. I know they have tricks up their sleeves to get capacities up, but they've been squeezing everything they can get out of their current technology.

 

[Kippa]

I know most SSDs form factors are 2.5", though I wouldn't mind having an SSD with a form factor of 3.5" like hard drives if it means that they can cram more memory modules and have higher capacities for a cheaper price.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

I just like thinking of a 16tb ssd. It's like 2.5x the largest HDD and it would be so fast. I wouldn't need to upgrade my storage for a long time.

 

[creed3020]

I just like thinking of a 16tb ssd. It's like 2.5x the largest HDD and it would be so fast. I wouldn't need to upgrade my storage for a long time.

I too would appreciate being able to have my data is a centralized place, rather than all over just because it doesn't fit!

 

[code65536]

I wouldn't need to upgrade my storage for a long time.

And you wouldn't be able to because the SSD's cost bankrupted you. :awe:

 

[BonzaiDuck]

It is closer to raising the question of how much it will cost. I doubt I'll be able to afford huge SSDs for my file storage needs, but I hope it gives a kick in the pants of the hard drive manufacturers to get in gear and actually try improving hard drive sizes. Maybe it's just me but it feels like hard drive sizes have been stuck for way too long. We've had 4TB drives for how long now? Only recently we are seeing a trickle of super expensive 6TB drives. I know they have tricks up their sleeves to get capacities up, but they've been squeezing everything they can get out of their current technology.

It also harks back to another current thread: "How many people really 'USE' the TB capacities of their hard disks (or even SSDs)?

Seems to me the last time(s) I came up against storage limitations versus need -- when you find an HDD to be 80 to 90% full -- was in the early '90s for myself, and around 2003 or 2004 for my cousin's office network.

But that's why I have a small server: pooled drive resources shared across the household really takes the burden off the workstations. My Mom's old LGA-775 system only has a 128GB Elm Crest SSD. It's maybe 60% full, and I don't see it growing too fast to anticipate any "changes" in storage capacity.

I've mentioned recently a mishap I had due to my own thoughtlessness and carelessness. I bricked the partition on my 600 GB VelociRapter "accelerated" HDD for my "flagship" desktop (sig). I did a bare-metal restore from the WHS server to a 1TB Sammy F3 HDD. I regard this as a waste of drive space. The VR drive is not "broken," and I will replace the F3 with it before I finally eliminate ISRT "Smart Response" and replace it with a 500GB SSD.

Certainly, what I spent for the 500GB drive might have been augmented by an extra couple Franklins to get a 1TB SSD. But again -- seems like a waste of unused disk space. Therefore -- a waste of money. For me, 256GB for an SSD boot-system disk with Windows and App programs is too small. 1TB is too big. And Goldi-Locks tells me that 500 GB is "just right."

 

[Bubbleawsome]

I have filled my 1.5TB drive to 700GB in just under a year. I think I actually may use it all.
My main thought was more having multi-channel gigabit ethernet linked to every device in the house and then have one RAID 0+1 system up in your attic with ~8TB of redundant, partitioned storage. There is plenty of room, it's plenty fast, and you would only need 1 80GB SSD in your machines for Windows and drivers. It's like home based cloud storage.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I have filled my 1.5TB drive to 700GB in just under a year. I think I actually may use it all.
My main thought was more having multi-channel gigabit ethernet linked to every device in the house and then have one RAID 0+1 system up in your attic with ~8TB of redundant, partitioned storage. There is plenty of room, it's plenty fast, and you would only need 1 80GB SSD in your machines for Windows and drivers. It's like home based cloud storage.

I've been thinking about an arrangement like that too. Something like a corporate network, where everyone's home directory is stored on a server share somehow.

Though, I would want to be able to be logged into the server from multiple workstations simultaneously, which I don't know if that works with server or roaming profiles.

Edit: IMPORTANT. One thing that I would want to see, with these uber-large, and probably uber-expensive, SSDs, is a warranty length commensurate with price, and expected lifetime.
For example, a 10-year warranty, for a 4TB or larger SSD.