You can get a 15.36TB Micron 9300 Pro for about $3000 too, and that's capable of speeds up to 3.5GB/sec Though, it will be harder to use in a NAS since it's not SATA.
It’s early adaptor price. I don’t think there’s ambny alternatives available in this 2.5” form factor even if it’s 15mm thick. They’ll sell as many as they can to these who absolutely need it, then drop the price and sell to the next group of people who quite badly need it and so on.
I feel like if you really need 15TB of SSD you would know the other options, or you'd be an enterprise customer and already have SSDs around this size or larger with manufacturer discounts. I don't see how this appeals to consumers unless consumer is just a nice way of saying uninformed.
Actually they are only about 2x the price. TheinsanegamerN accidentally used 1.5tb instead of 15tb for his calculation. $3990/15360GB would be 26¢/GB. As far as who they are I've seen them on newegg for a few years but that is as far as my knowledge of them goes.
About $0.26 per GB. Still double the cost of a lot of SSDs and 6-10 times cost of a HDD. If they want to sell these they need to bring price down a lot.
A $ 4 K CONSUMER SSD. What kind of consumer do they have in mind? And, anyone who needs and can afford that kind of storage is better off with a set of smaller drives and a good RAID setup, just in case those data really are that precious.
The 3990X makes sense for a workstation, since dual+ CPUs come with a bunch of server-related baggage and much less software can use it efficiently. I see very few gains by having one giant SSD, if one is all you'll have.
I can't believe they are charging almost $4K for a prosumer level piece of equipment and they dont even give you a headphone jack! Unbelievable. They must think we are fools!
Next they're going to say it comes with 10th gen Intel and not Renoir. It's as if they don't want our money... And it looks like a router too! Big Navi will defenestrate this with a rusty pruner
Call back when your 16TB HDD can serve 15TB of random 200KB database files / 2MB images at SSD speeds. With that kind of file distribution, a SSD will be around 100 times faster (no exaggeration) for 10x the price.
4kB random file read:
Your Toshiba MG08 16TB HDD: 0.6ish MB/sec read. 860 Pro SSD (SATA not even NVME): 104 MB/sec.
For comparison, 0.6MB/sec is around the same speed as an average home internet connection around 10+ years ago. The 2.5" SSD is around 170 times faster.
16TB NVMe isn't here yet, but will probably be around 200-300MB/sec for random 4K. Something ridiculous like the Optane 905 1.5TB already does random 4K at 700MB/sec, if you have a spare kidney.
And at only a $3500+ markup over a 16 TB spinning drive....! How 'consumer-ishly' priced, and so competitive! Spinning drives will be gone tomorrow! :)
Samsung needs this as well as NVME .2 versions for laptops going forward here for desktop mobos at 16TB in size here to help end the SSD space issues for future proofing issues here for multi usage laptops and desktops in gaming and media content creation here for YouTube and data science centers here. Once it becomes more mainstream here with 256GB RAM DDR5 and SODIMM RAM at 256GB for high end laptops for professionals and gamers in 240hz 4k HDR ai light sensing ability like on say a 8TB UHS-4 smartphone is needed for 4k and 8k high end video content creation and for storage here for video editing once the SSDs can be made with 3d printed self cooling materials here in both NVME .2 and SATA III versions here with the possibility of combining the RAM into the SATA III SSD itself in a combined unit here to save on space here on a laptop for a future cpu gpu and using other heated parts on the laptop mobo like on a smartphone cooling system that can also use the heat to convert to electricity to recharge the laptop battery after fixing the fire issue in the lition ion batteries on both smartphones and laptops here as getting all those parts into one part can help make the self recharging laptop possible here using heat generated from the gpu gpu and other hot parts of the system to recharge the battery here.
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lief1250 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
You can get a 15.36TB Micron 9300 Pro for about $3000 too, and that's capable of speeds up to 3.5GB/secThough, it will be harder to use in a NAS since it's not SATA.
shabby - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
$260 per gb of qlc... what do they think us consumers are smoking?Hardware Geek - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
At that price it should include whatever they think consumers are smoking.Tomatotech - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
It’s early adaptor price. I don’t think there’s ambny alternatives available in this 2.5” form factor even if it’s 15mm thick. They’ll sell as many as they can to these who absolutely need it, then drop the price and sell to the next group of people who quite badly need it and so on.Samus - Thursday, September 3, 2020 - link
Hopefully early adopters don't mind the condom-style marketing of this EXTRA LARGE, gold colored drive :)Flunk - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
I think they're thinking that the segment of people who really need this product are willing to pay a tonne for it.whatthe123 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
I feel like if you really need 15TB of SSD you would know the other options, or you'd be an enterprise customer and already have SSDs around this size or larger with manufacturer discounts. I don't see how this appeals to consumers unless consumer is just a nice way of saying uninformed.TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
You are off by a few factors. $3990/1536GB is $2.59 per GB, not $260.DigitalFreak - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Even so, it's still 25 times the per-gig cost of a quality SATA ssd. ... and who the hell is Team Group? Never heard of them.elavanis - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Actually they are only about 2x the price. TheinsanegamerN accidentally used 1.5tb instead of 15tb for his calculation. $3990/15360GB would be 26¢/GB. As far as who they are I've seen them on newegg for a few years but that is as far as my knowledge of them goes.IanCutress - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Teamgroup have been around for over a decade. Mostly sell enthusiast DRAMshabby - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Oops I meant tbshabby - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Wheres the edit button, this isn't the 20th century anymore at.kevin.mcc - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
About $0.26 per GB. Still double the cost of a lot of SSDs and 6-10 times cost of a HDD. If they want to sell these they need to bring price down a lot.nerd1 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Samsung 860 QVO 4TB costs $400, and is called overpriced. This one is twice more expensive per TB.eastcoast_pete - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
A $ 4 K CONSUMER SSD. What kind of consumer do they have in mind? And, anyone who needs and can afford that kind of storage is better off with a set of smaller drives and a good RAID setup, just in case those data really are that precious.frbeckenbauer - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
The kind of consumer who buys a 3990X for the same price :PAt this price, it should be a u.2 drive and come with a m.2 to u.2 adapter
Kjella - Thursday, September 3, 2020 - link
The 3990X makes sense for a workstation, since dual+ CPUs come with a bunch of server-related baggage and much less software can use it efficiently. I see very few gains by having one giant SSD, if one is all you'll have.vanish1 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
No headphone jack? Pass.Revv233 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
I can't believe they are charging almost $4K for a prosumer level piece of equipment and they dont even give you a headphone jack! Unbelievable. They must think we are fools!Unashamed_unoriginal_username_x86 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Next they're going to say it comes with 10th gen Intel and not Renoir. It's as if they don't want our money... And it looks like a router too! Big Navi will defenestrate this with a rusty prunerCullinaire - Thursday, September 3, 2020 - link
I miss the days when we joked about AGP slots instead...Kamen Rider Blade - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
I'd rather buy a 16TB HDD at that point.https://www.newegg.com/toshiba-mg08aca16te-16tb/p/...
$376 and I can have multiple drives for redundancy given their asking price.
Tomatotech - Monday, September 7, 2020 - link
Call back when your 16TB HDD can serve 15TB of random 200KB database files / 2MB images at SSD speeds. With that kind of file distribution, a SSD will be around 100 times faster (no exaggeration) for 10x the price.4kB random file read:
Your Toshiba MG08 16TB HDD: 0.6ish MB/sec read.
860 Pro SSD (SATA not even NVME): 104 MB/sec.
For comparison, 0.6MB/sec is around the same speed as an average home internet connection around 10+ years ago. The 2.5" SSD is around 170 times faster.
16TB NVMe isn't here yet, but will probably be around 200-300MB/sec for random 4K. Something ridiculous like the Optane 905 1.5TB already does random 4K at 700MB/sec, if you have a spare kidney.
MDD1963 - Saturday, September 12, 2020 - link
And at only a $3500+ markup over a 16 TB spinning drive....! How 'consumer-ishly' priced, and so competitive! Spinning drives will be gone tomorrow! :)Polaris198321 - Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - link
Samsung needs this as well as NVME .2 versions for laptops going forward here for desktop mobos at 16TB in size here to help end the SSD space issues for future proofing issues here for multi usage laptops and desktops in gaming and media content creation here for YouTube and data science centers here. Once it becomes more mainstream here with 256GB RAM DDR5 and SODIMM RAM at 256GB for high end laptops for professionals and gamers in 240hz 4k HDR ai light sensing ability like on say a 8TB UHS-4 smartphone is needed for 4k and 8k high end video content creation and for storage here for video editing once the SSDs can be made with 3d printed self cooling materials here in both NVME .2 and SATA III versions here with the possibility of combining the RAM into the SATA III SSD itself in a combined unit here to save on space here on a laptop for a future cpu gpu and using other heated parts on the laptop mobo like on a smartphone cooling system that can also use the heat to convert to electricity to recharge the laptop battery after fixing the fire issue in the lition ion batteries on both smartphones and laptops here as getting all those parts into one part can help make the self recharging laptop possible here using heat generated from the gpu gpu and other hot parts of the system to recharge the battery here.