SSD drives gradually grow in capacity and fall in price. The main factor in this is the development of multi-layer NAND Flash memories, which allow more capacity at a lower price. Nimbus Data, a company mostly known for its high-capacity SSDs, has just released the 100TB ExaDrive SSD that was announced a long time ago.
We are talking about an SSD with a fairly brutal capacity that is specially designed for Data Centers and the like. This 100TB ExaDrive has dimensions of 3.5 inches, not the traditional 2.5 inches. This unit is available in SATA III or SAS-2 interface.
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This 100TB ExaDrive is priced at $ 40.000, which is priced at $ 400 per Terabyte. We can go for the 50TB drive, which only costs $ 12.500, which is $ 250 per Terabyte. Some wrecks that are not at all accessible to ordinary mortals.
Internally, this unit has four Flash controllers that are supported by a processor that directs data traffic. As we can see it is an advanced unit that differs a lot from conventional SSDs. ExaDrive also uses business-grade 3D MLC NAND memories and comes with DRAM memory as cache in an unspecified amount.
The SATA version of the 100TB drive offers 500Mbps sequential read and write speeds and 114.000 random read IOPS and 106.000 random write IOPS. While the SAS drive offers 450Mbps sequential read and 260Mbps sequential write. Regarding random reading, it offers us 52.000 IOPS and in random writing it offers 26.000 IOPS.
Said units are also classified with unlimited resistance for a period of five years. Nimbus Data currently has clients of the height of Cisco, Dell EMC, Lenovo or Supermicro.
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