Storage has always been a problem for nearly every tech device on the market. That and battery life. While the latter has made leaps and bounds (for some manufacturers) the former has surged ahead in terms of progress. Nearly every laptop and desktop computer you buy nowadays come with a minimum of 320 GB of Hard Disk Drive (HDD space). However, one TB of data is now becoming the standard when it comes to storage on laptops and desktop computers. Still, 1 TB is nowhere close to the whopping 60 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Seagate revealed this week.
That’s 45 GB more than its closest competitor, the Samsung PM1633A, which reportedly costs $10,000. However, don’t expect to dish out your retirement fund for Seagate’s monster SSD as it’s most likely to retail on the company’s line of data centre storage solutions.
Seagate’s 60TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD utilises the familiar 3.5-inch form factor (the generic form factor most HDD’s have). The company says that its drive has “twice the density and four times the capacity” of Samsung’s PM1633a, and is capable of holding up to 400 million photos or 12,000 movies.
The reasoning behind the 3.5-inch form factor is the hopes that it will be easier to adopt when changing storage requirements in data centres since it removes the need to support separate form factors for hot and cold data. The company says it could also scale up capacity to 100TB in the same form factor in the future.
While a price hasn’t been revealed yet Seagate says it will offer “the lowest cost per gigabyte for flash available today”.
