New solid state drives weighing in at 1.6TB
Posted in Computers by Alex Sydell 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.