Seagate 60TB

swain90 · 11 Aug 2016 at 08:40

Read this last night;

http://www.zdnet.com/article/worlds-largest-ssd-revealed-as-seagate-unveils-60tb-monster/

60TB! :eek:

I dread to think how much these will be once they eventually hit retail.

Maundie · 11 Aug 2016 at 09:32

Like everything though, they will probably be about £100 by the time the masses are contemplating buying them as every tech is priced astronomically upon release.

Alloneword · 11 Aug 2016 at 09:49

swain90 said:
60TB! I dread to think how much these will be once they eventually hit retail.

I've just lost a 4TB and it's a pain, i can't get my head round loosing a 60TB :eek:

All1

FrankJH · 11 Aug 2016 at 09:55

Even for a datacentre that sounds like an insane amount of storage for a single device

I do find it interesting that its a 3 1/2 form factor SSD though (that alone probably equates to 25GB+ if they used the same technology /capacity as the Samsung in 2 1/2 inch format)

swain90 · 11 Aug 2016 at 12:06

Thinking about it, surely they would have to create a new controller which can handle a drive with so much storage?

Semple · 11 Aug 2016 at 14:47

They've had an interesting change of design as well, moving from 2.5" drives, to 3.5", which makes more sense in the Enterprise world as most servers all have hot-swap 3.5" bays.

They don't specifically mention how fast the disk will read/write at, which i can see will pose a lot of concern for enterprise customers. They're not always interested in total volume space - it's no good having 500Tb backed up if it takes a week to restore it.

Trifid · 11 Aug 2016 at 18:42

Semple said:
They've had an interesting change of design as well, moving from 2.5" drives, to 3.5", which makes more sense in the Enterprise world as most servers all have hot-swap 3.5" bays.

I think I missed that memo. Every server I've bought in the last 5 years has had 2.5" drives, along with our SAN also only having 2.5" drives.

FrankJH · 12 Aug 2016 at 09:17

Trifid said:
I think I missed that memo. Every server I've bought in the last 5 years has had 2.5" drives, along with our SAN also only having 2.5" drives.

Im sure there are plenty of servers out there with 2.5" drives, would it be the most common in this area - I doubt it considering how long 3.5" format has been around, I think the odds on 2.5" being the most common after such a short length of time (in comparison) are pretty remote

swain90 · 12 Aug 2016 at 10:31

We have two Dell servers in our lab which all contain 2.5" SAS drives.

Meaker · 12 Aug 2016 at 12:02

Our data center is now primarily 2.5" equipped.

On Holiday · 12 Aug 2016 at 12:06

Meaker said:
Our data center is now primarily 2.5" equipped.

When you say "data center", what exactly do you mean?

ubern00b · 12 Aug 2016 at 13:38

Plenty O'Toole said:
When you say "data center", what exactly do you mean?

If he works for RackSpace, then it really would be an entire data centre, otherwise a cage within a data centre.

We have 2 HP LeftHand P4800 SAN's (4 nodes) and only within the last 6 months have HP started replacing faulty disks with 2.5" variants. Our PureStorage SAN (Complete flash array) is obviously all 2.5".

FrankJH · 12 Aug 2016 at 13:46

Im sure you all realise that even if every single member of the OCUK board replied saying they all worked in data centres and only had 2.5 inch bays in their datacentre, it would still be an impossibly small % of the worldwide datacentres to make it worthless info.....

There must be billions of servers in data centres worldwide after all