Samsung just unveiled the world's largest SSD drive at 16TB. It will probably cost around 5000 British pounds.
Just wondering if there are any fanatic gamers or performance people out there who would buy it when it comes out at that price (of course I know you will all buy it when it costs $500 after a couple of years and the new record is 50TB)?
At what price would you be willing to buy such a thing?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/samsung-unveils-2-5-i…
Ha! Rich people who have no use for it but just want the latest and greatest, will be buying this ;o)
Given the current prices it is not even so much over the top.
If we assume $100US for a 250GB SSD, then 16TB would be equivalent to 64x$100 which makes it $6400. And it is all in one place rather than on 64 different drives.
It's an enterprise SAS drive, the connector is not your ordinary SATA III — you also can't compare it to a normal consumer SATA SSD. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Samsun…
That kind of capacity sounds like it's for businesses.
Sure, but I don't think I am wrong to assume that some non-business people will buy those anyway for performance.
Also, who knows what sizes games like the Witcher of another Skyrim have in 2 years - maybe 100+GB downloads and installation. Then 16TB is not a lot really.
seeing some of our enterprise clients are bundling dell servers with a few Intel 2tb DC P3700 for approx $6k aud each, makes the 16tb samsung a bargain. even at 5k pounds.
$500 in 2 years? I wish