This week, at the Flash Memory Summit conference Aug. 9, Seagate introduced a 60 TB solid-state drive (SSD), becoming the record-breaking maker of the world's highest-capacity storage device.
Businesswire reports that Seagate 60 TB solid-state hard drive caters to business clients, being intended for use in enterprise data centers. Before Seagate has unveiled its new high-capacity record-breaking SSD, the larger similar device has been Samsung's PM1633a, launched in March.
Samsung's PM1633a high-capacity solid-state drive costs $7,000. Seagate's newly unveiled SSD is just in demo mode and its price tag is unknown at the moment. The Seagate's record-breaking SSD is 45 TB larger than Samsung's.
According to PCMag, for compatibility with servers, both drives use the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. This means that neither Samsung's nor Seagate's high-capacity SSD would work in a PCI-based home PC.
Seagate achieved this record-breaking storage capacity of its new solid-state hard drive by ensuring its storage device is twice as dense as the Samsung unit. Seagate's 60 TB SSD could accommodate 12,000 DVD movies or 400 million social media-sized photos. For the moment, the record-breaking high-capacity SSD is just a prototype, but the company plans to launch it into production next year.
According to eWeek, the 60 TB solid-state hard drive that Seagate Technology had just introduced is officially called the 60TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD. The 2.5-inch high-capacity SSD holds nearly four times more content of the next highest capacity SSD available and it simplifies the configuration process of accommodating "cold" and "hot" data.
Seagate's newly unveiled SSD for data centers will help them accommodate a greater amount of data without the need to incorporate additional management steps or add additional servers. The drive has a flexible architecture that will provide an accessible pathway for data centers to accommodate even larger solid state drives in the future.
