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Several companies have unveiled new SSD products with high capacity during the conference Flash Memory Summit held this week in Santa Clara, California. But no one turns monster Seagate showed.

60TB

It’s about an SSD with no less than 60 terabyte capacity. This is according to Seagate four times the capacity as the next on the list. Moreover, the storage density to be twice as high, although Seagate’s SSD has the same form factor as the traditional 3.5-inch hard drives.

The company believes that the individual will be able to increase capacity further in the future, to 100 terabytes or more.

SSD is based on NAND flash memory from Micron, apparently the rather new 3D NAND technology.

The extremely spacious SSD as Seagate showed off this week. Photo: Seagate

SSD as only called for 60TB SAS SSD (SAS stands for Serial Attached SCSI), is not a product Seagate will supply with the very first. The device that was displayed is referred to as demonstration technology. However, the company stated that a similar product can be expected during 2017.

Seagate has not included in particular other details in the press release, but the image in the top of the case shows that the hard drive has a power consumption of about 15 watts .

The Register writes that the transmission rates of the huge SSD is not exactly among the highest, at least compared to the other product that Seagate unveiled yesterday, 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD.

the world’s fastest?

Nytro-SSD with the capacity of 8 terabytes is a x16 PCI Express card which, according to the Register actually consists of four smaller SSDs M.2 interface, along with their respective controls are mounted on a PCIe card.

the new Nytro-SSD as it was outlined in the spring of 2016. Photo: Seagate

When Seagate talked about this product earlier this year, it was promised that it would become the world’s fastest SSD. According to The Register, the carry 940,000 IOPS (Input / Output Operations Per Second) and 160,000 IOPS respectively arbitrary reading and writing. Data rates by sequential reading and writing will be respectively 10 and 3.6 gigabytes per second.

This product will begin shipping this year, in particular in the fourth quarter.

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