SSD 16 terabytes - this is not fiction, but reality. And this is just the beginning

A week ago, the Korean edition of Business Korea issued a leakage of effluent PM1633a Samsung company's hard drive. This is important because the disc capacity of 16 terabytes. But the most impressive is that it is only the beginning.

PM1633a - this is the SSD, and, unlike the cheaper and more traditional hard drive, its value will be fantastic. The largest the SSD, which you can buy at the moment, is worth $ 6000 (also Samsung), and its capacity is 4 terabayta.

Such volumes of Samsung has been achieved by the use of V-NAND technology developed by the company. Unlike the NAND-disks, flash memory layers arranged vertically. It will fit in a single layer disc 24. In 2014, the number increased to 36. Future PM1633a has 48 layers.

16 terabytes - it is really a lot. On this disk you can store 3000 Blu-Ray copy of the film "Mad Max: Road rage". However, you can hardly see the point in this disk volume and you are ready to pay for it. However, this technology will be useful in the corporate segment and to fill server capacity.

But the president of market research firm Moor Insights & Strategy Patrick Moorhead thinks otherwise:

We expect that in 3-5 years of such SSD will be standard for notebooks.

According to Moorhead, drives such volumes turned over many industries. He believes that the memory and disk space - the only limitations that constrain the field of biotechnology, design and most importantly, artificial intelligence.

But many experts do not believe the breakthrough Samsung like much. They are much more interested in Intel technology called 3D XPoint (pronounced crosspoint).

Contrary to drives that rely on information stored in the transistors used in the 3D XPoint microscopic network of wires, which are controlled by the selector. As a result, the drive can record information 1000 times faster NAND drives and 10 times denser than DRAM - memory that computers use to store temporary information.

Intel announced that the products in 3D XPoint should not wait until next year, but when they appear, they will be able to transform some of the industry into something that we can not yet even imagine.

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