Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 22-02-2018

Samsung has announced it has begun mass production of the world’s largest solid state drive (SSD) with a whopping 30.72 terabyte (TB) storage space.

The 2.5 in inch drive called the PM1643 combines 32 new 1TB NAND flash sticks, each comprised of 16 stacked layers of 512Gb V-NAND chips.

The Verge reports, the new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive offers impressive sequential read and write speeds of up to 2,100MB/s and 1,700 MB/s. That’s about three times as fast as the average SATA SSD you’d find in a consumer desktop or laptop.

Samsung’s Electronics Jaesoo Han said: “With our launch of the 30.72TB SSD, we are once again shattering the enterprise storage capacity barrier, and in the process, opening up new horizons for ultra-high capacity storage systems worldwide.”

Each drive is reportedly capable of storing 5,700 full HD movies or roughly 500 days of non-stop video, and offers twice the capacity of the former largest SSD.

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