The two foremost angles that the majority SSD storage appears to be shifting in the direction of is efficiency or capability. On the capability entrance, we’re beginning to see the primary eight TB shopper drives coming to the market in a wide range of codecs. Always keen to leap forward of the competitors, TeamGroup has introduced its new QX ‘Extra Large’ SSD coming in at 15.36 TB.
This new SSD is provided with 3D QLC flash NAND, permitting it to hit the excessive capability. The 2.5-inch drive has an SLC cache mode forward of the DRAM buffer, which permits the drive to succeed in 560 MB/s reads and 480 MB/s writes based on the press launch. The drive is rated below guarantee for 2560 Terabytes Written, which comes all the way down to 0.15 drive writes per day if the guarantee is three years – TeamGroup has not specified any precise guarantee at the moment. At any charge, even with full sequential write velocity, it could take round 60-70 days of steady writes to undergo that guarantee.
Nothing else from TeamGroup’s press launch appears out of the bizarre for the standard SATA SSD. We’ve reached out to ask precisely what SSD controller or NAND is below the hood, as these weren’t supplied. There’s additionally no point out of IOPS. TeamGroup claims this drive is aimed on the shopper market, which it is just by advantage of it missing various premium enterprise options. The value nonetheless is decidedly non-consumer: an eye-watering $3990 per drive, and the drives appear to be solely made-to-order by OEM or SI shoppers. That’s $260 per TB of SATA SSD.
It has been confirmed that TeamGroup is utilizing a Phison E12DC controller.
It’s price noting that we mentioned the NimbusData NL drive final week, which can also be a high-capacity SATA SSD however geared as much as the enterprise market. The 16 TB model of that drive is barely $2900, quite a bit cheaper than this. The flip facet of that’s the 3.5-inch kind issue of the NimbusData NL, in comparison with 2.5-inch (doubtless 15mm) for TeamGroup.
In the tip, I’m of the opinion that TeamGroup is unlikely to promote many of those, besides to area of interest buyer bases, or laptop computer deployments maybe – each of that are unlikely to be too eager on the ‘consumer’ designation.
