New solid state drives weighing in at 1.6TB
Posted in Computers by Alex on February 5th, 2008
Bitmicro announced today plans to launch a new series of 3.5-inch solid state drives. They are promising capacities of 1.6TB (that’s 1600GB) and transfer speeds up to 320MB/second. The new drive, dubbed ‘E-Disc Altima Ultra320 SCSI SSD,’ will also be able to withstand harsh conditions.
Given the prices of current SSDs, you can expect these to cost in the thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yes, that means that consumers probably won’t be buying these anytime soon. The drives are aimed at military applications and other high-budget industries.
We’re hoping to see these make it to computers in our lifetime, and are awaiting a 2.5-inch version for laptops as well. We do tend to be pretty optimistic though.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:00 am
1.6TB is 1634GB
Just beeing smartass here. Thats great news anyway, thanks!
August 19th, 2008 at 5:29 am
In 5 years I might be able to afford one.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:54 am
“1.6TB is 1634GB Just beeing smartass here. Thats great news anyway, thanks!”
actually, not in hard drives it isn’t.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Yeah, 1.6TB in hard drive space is closer to 1380 GB.
http://xkcd.com/394/
August 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
ouch
October 31st, 2008 at 12:51 pm
i thought the first guy was right?
i work it out to 1634.4gb
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Well, if we want to be technical, 1 GiB is 1024 KiB, which is 1024 MiB (Gibi, Kibi, Mibi – binary notation). GB would refer more accurately to Gigabytes, or 1000 Kilobytes. This is the measurement usually used by hard drive and storage manufacturers, because the resultant value is smaller. Gotta love the corporate climate, haven’t you?
December 4th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Agh, made a mistake there! 1GiB is 1024MiB, which is 1024KiB, is what I meant to say.
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:59 am
The smaller usable size of most HDDs is related to the address tables stored on the disk. A SSD memory device would have an internal address decoder, and while there might still be some sort of address table, the SSD device would quite likely offer the entire useful 13743895348 bits of storage.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm