this is weird to say but i think WD is making great progress in the ssd oem market. its very good to see because i know they have been having fab and hdd troubles lately. hope things go okay for them in the near future.
1U can do 32x EDSFF Long, which means 32x 30.72TB = 983TB ( Just short of a PB ). And that is only on a 96-layer BICS4 3D TLC NAND. And that 41PB in a single Rack!. And in the not far future 100PB in a Rack.
You could fit the whole of DropBox into a few of these Racks!.
I remember when it was a common assertion that SSDs might not have much of a future, because the capacities wouldn't scale enough to keep up with mechanical disk technologies.
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austinsguitar - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
this is weird to say but i think WD is making great progress in the ssd oem market. its very good to see because i know they have been having fab and hdd troubles lately. hope things go okay for them in the near future.ksec - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
1U can do 32x EDSFF Long, which means 32x 30.72TB = 983TB ( Just short of a PB ). And that is only on a 96-layer BICS4 3D TLC NAND. And that 41PB in a single Rack!. And in the not far future 100PB in a Rack.You could fit the whole of DropBox into a few of these Racks!.
jordanclock - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
And a mere ~26kW power usage!allenb - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
Pretty sure the 0.8 and 2 DWPD numbers for the U2 drives are reversed.MrCommunistGen - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Agreed.twtech - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
I remember when it was a common assertion that SSDs might not have much of a future, because the capacities wouldn't scale enough to keep up with mechanical disk technologies.