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Japanese company announced 2.5" Non-NVME 13TB and 10TB SATA SSD drives (updated)

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A Japanese company called "FixStars Corporation", which has its headquarters in Tokyo, has just announced a 2.5" 13TB and 10TB SSD drives (Noted that these 2 SSDs are not NVME drives).

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The model numbers of 13TB and 10TB SSDs are "FixStars SSD-13000M" and "Fixstars SSD-10000M". They both SATA 6Gbps drives, and are made of 15nm MLC NAND chips, and using their in-house made controller, which stated in the press release, that it can offer a stable sequential I / O performance over a long period of time, while the Max. read and write speed of those 2 SSDs are 580 & 520 MB/s respectively. Noted that these 2 drives are both 15mm thick, and came with a 3 year warranty.

In the press release FixStars stated that these SSDs are suitable for storage, streaming, CG / VFX editing, 4K / 8K video processing, which required stable sequential access to large volumes of data.

Also in the press release it was stated that pre-order today (13 Jan) in Japan and US, and the drives will be shipped in late Feb. Price of these 2 SSDs are still yet to confirm, as I'm still digging, and will be updated later.

Press release from FixStars

http://www.fixstars.com/ja/news/?p=927 (in Japanese)

Product Spec

http://www.fixstars.com/ja/ssd/spec/ (in Japanese)

http://www.gdm.or.jp/pressrelease/2016/0113/147631 (in Japanese)

*update on 14/01/2015: PC World estimated that this drive could cost around $13000, although the official price still wasn't determined by FixStars. Also the drives would be sold directly via by FixStars, and it won't be available through any online retail stores or sites.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3021886/hardware/the-worlds-first-13tb-ssd-is-here.html

English version of the press release from FixStars

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fixstars-launches-ssd-13000m-the-worlds-largest-13tb-ssd-for-applications-such-as-object-storage-and-streaming-content-distribution-300203742.html

Product Spec listed on the FixStars US site

http://www.fixstars.com/en/ssd/spec/

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wtf I want 2 for game recording but it is way more than I will probably ever spend on storage.

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Lol. Who in their right mind would purchase something that will end up costing as much as a new rig.

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Lol. Who in their right mind would purchase something that will end up costing as much as a new rig.

 

Without more information around redundancy, power protection, and durability I'd take a stab in the dark and estimate this is intended for enterprise. 

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someone who needs to store 13TB without seek times? (literally no one)

In the press statement they stated these drives are designated for streaming, CG and 4K/8K Video editing and etc....

"Object storage, streaming, CG / VFX editing, such as 4K / 8K video processing, making it ideal for applications that require stable sequential access to large volumes of data. " (via translation from Google)

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Lol. Who in their right mind would purchase something that will end up costing as much as a new rig.

 

someone who needs to store 13TB without seek times? (literally no one)

 

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Lol. Who in their right mind would purchase something that will end up costing as much as a new rig.

Oh, I can think of quite a few people, just on this forum alone...

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they seem quite thick for 2.5" drives.

 

quoting luke from the wan show a while back:

"well, its 2.5 inches wide, just also 10 foot tall"

Honestly, I would not mind just having an SSD that's like a 3.5" HDD form factor, but just crammed to the teeth with NAND chips. It'd probably suck as much power as an HDD, but it'd still be frickin' awesome :D

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Looking at the power draw on this thing - yep, 3W at idle, 6W on load. Don't think about putting one of these in your laptop, even if it has the space.

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That single 2.5" drive has more storage than my entire home server. 

 

I'll take 10. Just wait for me to find someone that wants a kidney and half a liver.

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Honestly, I would not mind just having an SSD that's like a 3.5" HDD form factor, but just crammed to the teeth with NAND chips. It'd probably suck as much power as an HDD, but it'd still be frickin' awesome :D

but that thing is literally thicker than any modern laptop - IMO the only place where huge size SSDs really make sense.

(servers will use more small size drives for redundancy, and actually use them for redundancy *cough*, and either way, they dont fit in standard 2.5" bays either.)

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nah i'm still sticking to hard drives.

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Considering that name brand companies like samsung and intel arent even close to those capacities, i wouldn't get one... probably cheap parts just stacked up. Id love to see what the failure rate is

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Looking at the power draw on this thing - yep, 3W at idle, 6W on load. Don't think about putting one of these in your laptop, even if it has the space.

The 6.5W is maximum load power consumption.

 

Shouldn't be too bad should it? 840 Evos can hit a little over 3W active and some sandisk ones hit up to 6W.

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Honestly, I would not mind just having an SSD that's like a 3.5" HDD form factor, but just crammed to the teeth with NAND chips. It'd probably suck as much power as an HDD, but it'd still be frickin' awesome :D

I'm sitting here wondering why they haven't made that yet...

or they could cram 2 2.5" SSDs in RAID 0 inside a 3.5" form factor drive...

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I'm sitting here wondering why they haven't made that yet...

or they could cram 2 2.5" SSDs in RAID 0 inside a 3.5" form factor drive...

Well... you say that... >.> Enermax has a HDD-styled drive enclosure that has two 2.5" bays, connectors and a small RAID controller that you can use to make a RAID 0, 1 or JBOD array. :D

 

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Only 3 years of warranty?! Hahaha haha ha aa... no thanks

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The 6.5W is maximum load power consumption.

 

Shouldn't be too bad should it? 840 Evos can hit a little over 3W active and some sandisk ones hit up to 6W.

I thought normal SSDs had an idle power consumption of, like .5W and a load of 1.5W or something. Higher-end drives, sure, but those are built for desktops. The more power-sippy ones are more appropriate for something like a laptop. Which is why no-one ever bought an Intel SSD for theirs.

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Servers??

OT: I want one, not that I will get one any where near that storage space for at least another 4-5 years

 

Sorry, cost wise it doesn't make any sense to become an early adopter.

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Only 3 years of warranty?! Hahaha haha ha aa... no thanks

this is not going to be a consumer grade drive. They will likely be used in servers. Also, a 3 year warranty is damn amazing for any kind of storage.

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I thought normal SSDs had an idle power consumption of, like .5W and a load of 1.5W or something. Higher-end drives, sure, but those are built for desktops. The more power-sippy ones are more appropriate for something like a laptop. Which is why no-one ever bought an Intel SSD for theirs.

I don't know about regular power consumption, just talking about the maximums because that's what they list on the site.

 

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So for a 10/13TB drive, that doesn't seem that bad.

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Only 3 years of warranty?! Hahaha haha ha aa... no thanks

Being in the enterprise, I'd expect it to be read from and written to more or less constantly for a really large amount of the time. A good-quality SSD will last around half that time of being roasted to death by constant writes (and in that time it'll write multiple petabytes of data before kicking the bucket - far beyond what any normal SSD would write to in its lifespan). In that sort of situation, a solid 10-year warranty on one of those SSDs would not help you, because the drive was being [ab]used far beyond its intended use case. An enterprise-level warranty would almost certainly cover any kind of use circumstances you'd expect in a server environment - packed in a tight space, dumping heat into each other, running at full load for a long time - so a 3-year warranty doesn't seem that bad, given how much load enterprise drives are put under.

 

I mean, you're talking about guaranteeing a drive to operate at high load without fault for 3 years. That's an eternity for a server drive.

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