3.5 inch SSDs?

s452 · 9 Mar 2016 at 08:22

Ive been wondering why 3.5" SSDs were never a thing, I mean surely you can make much bigger capacity SSDs in a larger form factor (at a very similar £ per gig price point to the traditional 2.5" drives), with just a larger internal PCB or maybe 2?

Psypher5 · 9 Mar 2016 at 08:45

memory chips ain't as big as they used to be!

eammoncass · 9 Mar 2016 at 09:55

I don't think theres really a need for them to be any bigger, there are adaptors available to make 2.5" into 3.5" to fit available bays.

drakioned · 9 Mar 2016 at 10:23

They existed.

I had a couple of Vertex 2E Bigfoots... I don't know if there's a lot of demand for them, unless they were cheaper per GB.

Gze · 9 Mar 2016 at 17:56

No much demand as 2.5" can be used in both laptops and desktops, where as a 3.5" is desktop only.

Vitorek · 9 Mar 2016 at 18:00

There was OCZ Big Foot. But they are so small today, You could probably fit 4TB in 2.5" drive. Waste of material to make them bigger

theMilitant · 10 Mar 2016 at 21:17

They most likely don't exist because an SSD with enough memory chips to mean it needs a 3.5" form factor would be so expensive there wouldn't be a market for it.

nutcase · 11 Mar 2016 at 08:10

Vitorek said:
There was OCZ Big Foot. But they are so small today, You could probably fit 4TB in 2.5" drive. Waste of material to make them bigger

15TB is the current maxiumum.