To make this new 16 TB SSD, Samsung has stacked up 48 of those layers, but that's not even where it ends Samsung thinks it can get up to 100-layer stacks by 2017, which means bigger hard drives to come. Instead of just squishing in two dimensions, it adds layers on top, which wildly increases how much data you can fit in a small space. Samsung's V-NAND gets around this by going vertical. That's how we went from 256MB USB drives to ones that can hold hundreds of GB, all in the same size stick.īut eventually, those plots just can't get any closer. Historically, the way you make flash memory store more data is by getting rid of the wasted space between those plots of land, and squeezing them ever closer together. Basically, you can think of traditional flash storage as being a plane of little plots of land. The way Samsung managed to cram this much storage space onto a tiny 2.5-inch drive is thanks to a technology called V-NAND. That said, this is aimed squarely at the enterprise market. That is to say, more than you could ever possibly need. One and a half copies of Wikipedia, or 153 if you compress it.279 installed copies of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
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10971 copies of the Beatles full discography (at 320 kbps).18070 pirated copies of the action film classic Die Hard.So how much is 16 TB really? It's enough to store: That's what lets it get up to such ridiculously high capacity. Unlike other super high capacity hard drives-most of which still use spinning disks and top out around the 10 TB range-Samsung's new PM1633a (great name!) uses solid-state flash memory like what you'd find in your phone or a USB flash drive. Spotted by, the new drive was announced at the Flash Memory Summit in California. Its new 16 TB solid state drive is not just unfathomably huge, it's the biggest hard drive you can get, full stop. If you never want to run out of space on your computer again-like, ever-Samsung has got your back.
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