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Toshiba has gone ahead and quietly made a 1.6TB and a 3.2TB dual-port ZD6000 NVMe SSD available to OEMs, it was revealed this week after startup company, Apeiron certified them. There is also talk of even higher capacities coming later this year, with future models potentially hitting later this year.
This information reached us from a report on The Register, who spotted that Apeiron, a startup company supplying NVMe over fabric links for businesses, had certified two of Toshiba's high capacity drives.
The idea behind Apeiron's SSD is to use a combination of NVMe and Ethernet to move data faster than an internal PCIe-connected drive.
According to Apeiron, Toshiba has higher capacity NVMe SSDs in the pipeline for later this year. Speculation points towards 7TB and 14TB drives but this is entirely unconfirmed for now. It is also worth noting that these aren't consumer drives, so it will be a while before you can grab a 3.2TB SSD for your standard desktop.
KitGuru Says: A few companies have been making higher capacity SSDs recently, including Samsung. Hopefully we will start to see these higher capacity drives start to trickle down to consumers soon. That said, I do wonder how many people would replace their hard drives entirely if high capacity SSDs came along. Would you replace a large storage HDD with an SSD equivalent? Or would you rather keep a hard drive around for convenience?
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availability should not be the question, price really should be
Reliability should be the question…
The only reason left to hold onto a HDD is that they can write/rewrite more than SSDs.
However, the moving parts on HDD make them practically more prone to failure, so making the jump to SSD’s might be beneficial in every sense of the word: reliability, efficiency, performance.
The only cost is…well cost.
I think it will be only a few more years until HDDs are wiped out, and SSDs become de facto.
But HDDs will still be used more than SSDs by Google, Facebook, Servers etc etc. Or cheap portable storage ($50 for 5TB units).
Hell, even microSD cards are catching up. They’re also superior in every way except price and capacity (256GB current). But I suspect in that time they’ll hit 1TB capacity at around $150 prices.
It comes down to cost for me… I will use SSD’s as the System drive in ALL 11 of my home computers once the price is down to $100 per TB. I will use them for storage once they’re at $50 per TB