Where can you buy a 1.5TB SSD?

[VirtualLarry]

I'm curious. I mentioned to a semi-tech-savvy neighbor (who still has a Vista PC), that I upgraded the SSD in a friend's rig from 30GB to 120GB. He then commented and asked me if I had seen the 1.5TB SSDs. I told him that the largest consumer SSD that I had seen, was 1TB.

I consider myself to be "in the know" pretty well, and the first thing that I did was go home and go to Newegg and look up SSDs, in an attempt to find these mythical 1.5TB SSD drives. The only drives that were larger than 1TB were PCI-E. There were two of them. My neighbor mentioned them fitting in laptops. So I'm guessing he saw a 2.5" 1.5TB SSD?

Anyone seen these?

Edit: Came across this article from 2012, talking about massive 5TB SSDs, with 400K IOPS, but I don't recall ever seeing design wins for this controller.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/01/18/bitmicro-5tb-ssd-talino-de/1

 

[MustISO]

For 3K you can buy a 2TB Sandisk Optimus
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Optimu.../dp/B00KFIZRQY
http://www.sandisk.com/enterprise/sas-ssd/optimus-eco-ssd/
They have 1.6TB as well. These are obviously not consumer products.

 

[VirtualLarry]

For 3K you can buy a 2TB Sandisk Optimus
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Optimu.../dp/B00KFIZRQY
These are obviously not consumer products.

Interesting. I wonder what he was looking at then. Especially since that 2TB has a 3.3grand price tag.

He's saving $100/mo for a new PC. Gonna be a loooong time before he can afford a 1.5TB SSD then.

Edit: He was looking at 17" laptops. Perhaps he saw a listing like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Alienware.../dp/B00BL02AI8
"Dell Alienware M18X R2 3.0GHz i7-3940XM 32GB 1.5TB SSD Nvidia GTX 680M SLI FullHD Blu-Ray W8"

Which, the proper way to parse that listing, is 32GB SSD and a 1.5TB HDD, not "1.5TB SSD". Unless of course, that system does come with a 1.5TB SSD... hmm.

 

[ksheets]

Maybe he saw one of the hybrid drives?

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/03/07/seagate-desktop-hybrid/1

 

[Maximilian]

I spoke to a semi-tech savvy dude who bought a laptop from me. He insisted that intel were making a chip called the i9 and it would have 6 cores. I told him they already released an i7 980x 6 core chip a few months back, he replied no this is new its called the i9. I just played along from that point.

Had a semi-tech savvy flatmate once, he used a torrent client called "bitlord", his friend said it was "the best". Wiki said it was full of spyware... wondered why our net was so slow from time to time

I take the semi-tech savvys ramblings with a pinch of salt, its like they don't even google things lol. Anyways yeah ive never seen any 1.5tb SSDs, ive been watching and hoping crucial release an MX100 1TB version but no, they've got new MX200 and BX100 drives coming this quarter though:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crucial-storage-ssd-bx100-mx200,news-49529.html

None of them bigger than 1tb.

 

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crucial-storage-ssd-bx100-mx200,news-49529.html

Crucial will soon offer two new storage solutions: the Crucial MX200 for power users and the Crucial BX100 for mainstream customers.

I really wish that they could make up their mind with the branding.

They had the M4, then the M500, and then the MX100 and the M550. The MX100 was the "consumer" model, and was limited to 512GB. The M550 was intended to compete more with the Samsung 840 Pro, and went up to 1TB.

Now their new "MX" series drive is no longer the cheaper "consumer" model, but the "power user" model, and they are introducing a new, even lower tier model, the BX100?

Will they continue to sell the M550?

And what's with the new MX600 with Dynamic Write Acceleration being OEM-only?

Oh well. I guess if they're cheap, and fast, I don't exactly care what they call their drives (within reason).

 

[Kippa]

One good thing about Crucial, they finally brought out an SSD utility for their own drives now called Storage Executive Client. I don't think it works for all Crucial drives, though I installed it and updated the SSD firmware, it was a dodle.

Here is a link to the official site if you want to download it : http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/support-storage-executive

 

[john3850]

Thanks for the link Kippa.

 

[bbhaag]

One good thing about Crucial, they finally brought out an SSD utility for their own drives now called Storage Executive Client. I don't think it works for all Crucial drives, though I installed it and updated the SSD firmware, it was a dodle.

Here is a link to the official site if you want to download it : http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/support-storage-executive

Thanks man. That's a pretty sweet little program.

 

[BFG10K]

It would be nice to have consumer 1.5TB SSDs. Those big 50GB games take up 5% space alone on a 1TB drive.

 

[wtfcowisown]

I spoke to a semi-tech savvy dude who bought a laptop from me. He insisted that intel were making a chip called the i9 and it would have 6 cores. I told him they already released an i7 980x 6 core chip a few months back, he replied no this is new its called the i9. I just played along from that point.

Wow...

 

[hhhd1]

I have seen this:

www.ebay.com/itm/Thinkpad-w540-w530-w520-w510-RAID-1-controller-new-2x256GB-Samsung-msata-SATA-3-/281522283429

Where you can put 2x mSATA 1TB SSDs, to make one 2TB SATA SSD in RAID0, the above link is for RAID1 though, but I belive that RAID0 exists somewhere

 

[ocer9999]

Thanks man. That's a pretty sweet little program.

Are you sure it doesn't work with other brands? Or is there another non-Crucial version...this looks really good!

 

[greenhawk]

Edit: He was looking at 17" laptops. Perhaps he saw a listing like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Alienware.../dp/B00BL02AI8
"Dell Alienware M18X R2 3.0GHz i7-3940XM 32GB 1.5TB SSD Nvidia GTX 680M SLI FullHD Blu-Ray W8"

Which, the proper way to parse that listing, is 32GB SSD and a 1.5TB HDD, not "1.5TB SSD". Unless of course, that system does come with a 1.5TB SSD... hmm.

I recall reading about a few similar laptops a while back (year?) that also claimed 1.5Tb SSD, but on reading the full specs, it turned out to be 3 x 512 GB mSATA drives.