The most capacious SSD in the world: 13 TB from Fixstars

Fixstars, a flash storage company, decided to eclipse all previous records set by manufacturers of SSD drives. This company has released the most capacious SSD in the world, with a capacity of 13 TB. It comes with a less capacious model, with a memory capacity of 10 TB.

Thus, the company also set a second record, breaking even from manufacturers of traditional HDDs. For example, Seagate, like several other manufacturers of hard drives, produces HDDs with a maximum memory capacity of 10 TB. And here is an SDD with 13 TB.



The performance of the device is also up to par, in any case, as the manufacturer claims .



As is the case with helium HDDs, this SSD is not intended for ordinary consumers with their home PCs. These drives are intended primarily for data centers that support the operation of cloud services. Drives are ideal in terms of receiving and transmitting huge amounts of information, including streaming, creating CG / VFX, video processing. As you might guess, the cost of such SSDs is equal to the price of a small yacht. For a model of 13 TB, you will have to pay $ 19,000. The cost of GB in this case is about $ 1.46 - this is much more than in consumer models.

The 2.5-inch SSD uses its own controller, as well as Toshiba MLC NAND memory. Sequential read speed - 580 MB / s, write - 540 MB / s. Power consumption of 3 watts idle and 6.5 watts at peak loads.

Interestingly, technically this is a 2.5 inch drive, but its height is 15 mm. Such an SSD is unlikely to fit in a laptop.

Probably only sufficiently rich organizations will allow themselves to purchase such a drive. In order for the price of such an SSD to be approximately $ 1000, the cost of GB should drop to the level of 7-8 cents. This is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.