Why are they so much smaller?

[CouchKnight]

I have been wondering for a while why SSD are always 2.5"? Wouldn't it make sense to make them 3.5" to fit standard and use the extra space to make them hold more information?

[.Apex.]

3 minutes ago, CouchKnight said:

I have been wondering for a while why SSD are always 2.5"? Wouldn't it make sense to make them 3.5" to fit standard and use the extra space to make them hold more information?

 

 

 

trust me.. space isn't the issue.. those are 2TB SSD's.

 

the problem is the cost, 2TB already has an insane price, there's no point at all of increasing the capacity, no one would buy them (excluding servers ofc, they already use high capacity SSD's)

[.Apex.]

 

and this is the 4TB SSD, it's not much bigger, but the price is 900$, that's as much as a whole PC, they would be losing lots of money if they made higher capacity SSD's and no one bought them.

[TheGlenlivet]

Everything gets smaller as time goes by.  The form factor for 3.5 inch drives will eventually go away just like the old technology of yesterday....

[ZcanKal]

15 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Everything gets smaller as time goes by.  The form factor for 3.5 inch drives will eventually go away just like the old technology of yesterday....

R.I.P. 5 1/4 inch drives, what is a disk again?  Who knows.

[TheGlenlivet]

Just now, ZcanKal said:

R.I.P. 5 1/4 inch drives, what is a disk again?  Who knows.

I think that's an 11 incher in the back there.  Probably Under a MB too hehe

[ZcanKal]

Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

I think that's an 11 incher in the back there.  Probably Under a MB too hehe

Those pits are probably about the size of the 4004's transistors.

[Sakkura]

There are actually some 3.5 inch SSDs. They're just far too expensive for consumer use.

 

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/seagate-60tb-ssd-36pb-storage-pod-next/

 

https://petapixel.com/2018/03/20/the-worlds-largest-ssd-is-now-100tb/